Slovenia deploys police on borders with Croatia, Hungary

OBREZJE, Slovenia, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Slovenia on Saturday deployed police on border crossings with Croatia and Hungary to forestall potential safety threats, resulting in queues as travellers waited to have their paperwork checked.

The Slovenian authorities had on Friday determined to introduce non permanent border controls till Oct. 30, following its neighbour Italy which launched controls on its border crossing with Slovenia to enhance dwelling safety.

Police have been deployed on 14 border crossings with Croatia and Hungary, Slovenian information company STA reported. The remaining 18 crossings is not going to have a everlasting police presence.

Travellers queued to have their papers checked on the Obrezje crossing on the border with Croatia, the place checks had not taken place since Jan. 1 this yr when Croatia joined the control-free Schengen Space.

Katica Fjacko, who was travelling from the Croatian capital Zagreb, mentioned she had left earlier to make the journey due to the controls. “Now this can be a larger chaos, individuals are apprehensive”, she mentioned.

Explaining its resolution to introduce border controls, the federal government cited safety threats that will come from what it mentioned have been “members of assorted terrorist and extremist actions and teams” shifting from areas of armed battle and aiming to achieve Europe.

It additionally cited an increase of organised crime within the western Balkans.

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