Slovenia erects more border fence to curb migrant inflow

PRELOKA, Slovenia – Slovenia has begun work on a further stretch of fence alongside its southern border with Croatia with which it goals to maintain out a rising variety of migrants coming into the nation illegally.

Slovenia’s police registered 7,415 unlawful migrants within the first seven months of this 12 months, a bounce of 56% in contrast to the identical interval of 2018 as extra persons are attempt to attain rich Western states through the Balkans.

Final month the federal government signed a contract with a Serbian agency Legi-SGS to place up 40 kilometres (25 miles) of fence on the border with Croatia. As soon as that part is accomplished, the entire size of fence shall be 219 kilometres and canopy nearly a 3rd of the Slovenian border with Croatia. Slovenia’s complete land and sea border is 1,370 km lengthy.

“The fence shall be erected briefly within the areas the place it’s obligatory to stop unlawful crossings of the state border and make sure the security of individuals and their property,” stated Irena Likar, a spokeswoman of the Inside Ministry.

A Reuters photographer close to the village of Preloka in southern Slovenia noticed development work underway on the website.

Likar stated the precise time plan and placement of for the erection of the fence wouldn’t be made public.

Slovenia first started developing a border fence throughout the refugee disaster of 2015 when in a interval of six months about half one million unlawful migrants handed via the nation.

This new stretch of fence is round 2.5 metres excessive and is being erected on the banks of the river Kolpa which runs between Slovenia and Croatia.

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The federal government’s immigration coverage has met with little opposition in Slovenia, though some civil society teams are towards the wire fence.

Most unlawful migrants come from Pakistan, Algeria, Afghanistan, Morocco and Bangladesh. Solely a fraction search asylum in Slovenia, with most persevering with on to neighbouring Italy and Austria.

Final month Italian and Slovenian police began joint border patrols in an effort to curb the circulate of unlawful migrants.

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