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Hungarian-Croatian border will be closed from the weekend
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Even at the weekend or early next week at the latest, Hungary will close the Croatian border – origo.hu learned from government sources. According to the politicians commented to the portal, we have to prepare for “more violent” situations than after the crossing of Roszke border.
According to the information of origo.hu, due to the complete closing of borders the same system will come into effect like at the Serbian border, ie. the refugees who enter the territory of Hungary, can be arrested. The sources said the Croats deliberately reduced the water level of the river Drava, in order to be possible to cross on foot as well. Nevertheless, the river still can be very dangerous, because the backwash is very strong.
Accrording to the data of vizugy.hu, the current water level is only 41 cm, but its water discharge is 324 cubic meters per second. This means that backwash is extremely strong.
The Croatian answer can be hard
It is not known what the Croatian response to the Hungarian border closing will be. The Zagreb cabinet called Plan B that the refugees had been transported to the Hungarian and Slovenian borders. Pro-government politicians have repeatedly called earlier that there would be a Plan C as well, but they did not officially acknowledged its plan.
However, two plans have been leaked: on of it says, if the border closing comes into force, the Croats guide the large groups of refugees not to the border crossing points, but to the green border.
Thus, the illegal immigrants arrive chaotically and unsupervised at the Hungarian border, and the Hungarian authorities can control them much harder.