Hungary closes down an other refugee reception centre

Budapest, May 12 (MTI) – The government has closed down the refugee reception centre in Nagyfa, near the southern border, as requested earlier by nearby local governments, the mayor of neighbouring Algyő said on Thursday.

Áron Molnár noted that in early March, the municipalities of Algyő, Hódmezovásárhely, Mako and Maroslele submitted a joint request to the interior minister and government office chief János Lázár to have the camp closed down. The matter became urgent after two incidents of young men from the camp harassing young women on the local bus, Molnar said.

He said Interior Minister Sándor Pintér had recently informed the Algyő local government that the camp had been closed down. In his letter, Pintér said that the government was continuously monitoring the migrant situation on the Hungarian-Romanian border and would order the construction of a fence there if it became necessary.

Molnár expressed hope that Nagyfa would not see any migrant arrivals in the future.

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters