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Matthew Weaver and Haroon Siddique

Refugee crisis: Hungary rejects all asylum requests made at border – as it happened

Hungary closes down a key border crossing from Serbia overnight on Monday, leaving thousands of migrants stranded. Many spent the night in the open at the border crossing in Horgos after officials finished fortifying a 108-mile border fence preventing migrants from getting through to the European Union. Police patrolled on horseback, while officials warn of a new era of swift deportations

The Associated Press has said it is protesting the brief detention of one of its journalists, cameraman Luca Muzi, by Hungarian police as he covered migrants crossing the border, saying he was forced to delete footage that included images of a police dog knocking down a refugee.

The officers took Muzi to a dark area outside a migrant registration center and demanded to see Muzi’s footage, then told him to delete it, he said. The footage contained two days of work in Serbia and Hungary. Muzi said he was compelled to delete the tape while feeling menaced by muzzled police dogs nearby.

Hungary has disputed the account, AP said.

Updated

Summary

The European Commission said it has received a notification from the Austrian authorities informing about their intention to temporarily reintroduce controls its borders with Hungary (which it announced yesterday), Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The commission said Austria’s move, like that of Germany, was in keeping with the provisions of the Schengen agreement:

The temporary reintroduction of border controls between Member States is an exceptional possibility explicitly foreseen in and regulated by the Schengen Borders Code, in case of a crisis situation.

The current situation in Austria, prima facie, appears to be a situation covered by the rules.

Having already warned that it would not accept anyone turned back from Hungarian territory, Serbia has warned that it is unable to become the “centre of arrivals” for migrants and called on the European Union to sort out the migration crisis.

Serbian foreign minister Ivica Dacic told reporters in Prague:

This is a serious crisis for the EU which must treat it seriously and with a clear plan.

The idea of returning all migrants to Serbia, with others flowing in from Greece and Macedonia, is unacceptable, because we would then become the centre of arrivals.

We would like to be part of the solution to the problem, but this can’t be to our detriment. Serbia cannot handle this.

Hungary has said that migrants whose asylum applications it rejects will be returned to Serbia.

Austria to introduce tougher border controls

Austria is to introduce tougher border controls at its border with Hungary from midnight (11pm BST), Reuters is reporting, citing an interior ministry spokesman.

Austria’s interior minister has informed the European Commission of the move, the spokesman said, adding that the new measures might be extended to other Austrian border regions depending on the numbers of migrants trying to enter.

He declined to give details as to what the new controls would involve.

The move comes two days after Germany put in place stricter controls, slowing the flow of migrants across its border.

Here are a couple of pictures from the Hungary/Serbia border:

Serbia border fence
Migrants look through the border fence between Serbia and Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Tuesday, 15 September, 2015. Photograph: Zoltan Mathe/AP
Hungary seals last gap on main border crossing to refugees
Hungary seals last gap on main border crossing to refugees
 Photograph: Zoltan Mathe/EPA

Journalist Matthew Cassel is tweeting from the Hungary/Serbia border

The authorities in Scotland have confirmed they will house at least 2,000 refugees after the UK government came under heavy, cross-party pressure at Holyrood to speed up and increase its offer to take 20,000 Syrian refugees, writes Severin Carrell.

Humza Yousaf, the Scottish minister for Europe and international development, confirmed that the Scottish government would help house 10% of the total number of refugees accepted by the UK after Labour urged him to increase an initial offer to take 1,000 people displaced by the conflict.

Yousaf told MSPs that Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister, had made it “very clear that 1,000 refugees coming to Scotland should be seen as a minimum and very much an initial, immediate figure – it is not a cap or a limit, nor is it spread out over five years like the announcement made by the prime minister last week.”

The Scottish government’s refugee task force agreed on Tuesday to set up a new website, http://www.scotlandwelcomesrefugees.scot/ with the Scottish Refugee Council, to coordinate responses, Yousaf said.

Claire Baker, Scottish Labour’s democracy spokeswoman, echoed his complaint that the 20,000 person ceiling and five year time scale set by David Cameron, the prime minister, was unacceptably low and ungenerous. There were 3,000 unaccompanied children caught in the wave of refugees now in Europe.

“On the refugee crisis the UK government has been reacting rather than leading. It is therefore important that we, as a parliament, should not stop applying pressure on Downing Street,” Baker said.

Hungary says it has ruled on 16 asylum requests under the new border regime on its southern frontier with Serbia, rejecting all 16 within a matter of hours, Reuters reports.

Another 32 claims were filed and were being processed, Gyorgy Bakondi, security advisor to right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a news conference.

He said 174 people had been caught crossing the border illegally and would face criminal prosecution.

Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that Hungary’s decision effectively to seal its border to refugees meant there was an immediate need to help Serbia cope with the expected logjam, writes Ian Traynor.

With 4,000 passing through Serbia every day hoping to get into Hungary, Guterres said Belgrade would not be able to manage the situation. “There is a need for an emergency plan to support Serbia,” he told a press conference in Brussels.

Turning back refugees from the EU into the Balkans was “legally, morally and physically unacceptable,” he added.

Guterres also voiced deep disappointment with the meagre results of Monday’s emergency meeting of the EU interior ministers and its failure to agree on a system of quotas spreading 120,000 across the union.

It was clear in the fallout from the Monday meeting that the person happiest with the result was Viktor Orban, the hardline Hungarian prime minister. Orban feels vindicated that the EU has shifted from illusory resettlement aims to tougher ‘Fortress Europe’ policies aimed at securing borders, keeping migrants out, and pressuring third countries to stem the flow of refugees.

The Hungarian government claims that most of those trying to enter are ‘economic migrants’ and not bona fide refugees, and that some are falsely claiming to be Syrians. The vast majority will not be admitted and those who are allowed to claim asylum will probably be deported back to Serbia, officials say.

Guterres said the biggest change in migration patterns this year was the “massive increase” in the numbers of Syrians trying to get to Europe, 83% of those entering Greece and proceeding up the Balkan route. The EU’s Frontex borders agency on Tuesday said that three out of four entering Greece and heading for Hungary last month were Syrians.

Some Syrians have managed to make it Germany via Hungary by dodging the Hungarian authorities. Saleh Ismael, a 28-year-old from the worn torn Syrian city of Homs, told the Guardian’s Mona Mahmood that he tried to evade detection by hiding in the Hungarian woods.

Speaking from a refugee camp in the German city of Wurzburg he said:

I feel lost and disappointed after leaving Turkey and coming here. The German people are good and we are grateful for their hospitality, but we came here to get asylum, to know about our future. I hope other countries in the European Union share the burden with Germany and take some refugees. Otherwise it could better for us to back to Greece or Turkey.

Germany was my dream from the moment I jumped into the boat to get to Greece. It took a lot of effort to avoid being registered and fingerprinted in Hungary. I hid and walked for days in a forest in the rain. I was frightened of being forced to apply for asylum in Hungary only to be sent back to Greece. In the forest I only had the sound of a train to guide me.

Eventually, I was arrested by Hungarian police who put me in jail for two days. I was beaten and kicked for refusing to register as an asylum seeker.

When the policeman came to take me to have a fingerprint, he forced my to take off all my clothes. I could not object that and after having a fingerprint, the policeman gave me back only one piece of clothing.

After making it to Germany I’m worried I might be sent back to Hungary. Our only demand is to be recognised as human beings who have the right to live in peace and have a family like any other common people in this world.

Refugee camp in Wurzburg Germany.
Refugee camp in Wurzburg Germany. Photograph: Handout

The Czech Republic has blamed Germany for the migration crisis in the latest round of mudslinging.

In a Twitter post Czech interior minister Milan Chovanec said: “The current biggest problem of solving migration is an inconsistent policy of Germany. And showing muscles to the neighbors across the border won’t conceal it.”

In her press conference German leader Angela Merkel called for greater European co-operation and an end to the blame game.

“We cannot manage this challenge by looking at someone else and telling them, ‘you’ve made this mistake’,” she said.

The Czech Republic and some other EU countries in the former Eastern bloc have rejected calls from Germany and the EU’s executive Commission for mandatory quotas to share refugees out.

Interior ministers of EU nations failed to agree to binding quotas at a meeting on Monday. The UN has expressed alarm at the EU’s inability to come up with a joint system.

Peter Sutherland special representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Migration, tweeted his frustration.

Hungary confirms border fence with Romania

Hungary’s government has confirmed plans to extend its border fence with Serbia to its much longer border with Romania, according to Reuters.

“We have made the decision to start preparatory works for the construction of a fence starting from the Hungarian-Serbian-Romanian border at a reasonable length should migration pressure shift in the direction of Romania,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news conference.

Updated

The migration crisis is one of Europe’s biggest challenges in decades, Merkel said. “We can manage to solve it and we will but only on a common level” Merkel insisted according to translation of her press conference on CNN.

Austria’s chancellor, Werner Faymann, criticised Hungary’s border crackdown.

We need [border] controls to assess who is entering the country, Merkel said. She pointed out that 70,000 migrants entered Germany from Austria via Hungary last month.

Since then Hungary has imposed a new border crackdown.

Border map

Merkel calls for EU summit next week

Merkel’s press conference about the refugee crisis is underway. She has defended Germany decision to reintroduce border controls and together with her Austrian counterpart called for a European summit on the crisis.

Updated

What about Hungary’s border with Romania? asks the Guardian’s Emma Graham-Harrison.

Within minutes there are reports that Hungary is planning another fence on the Romanian border.

Summary

Here’s a summary of the latest developments:

Serbian minister Aleksandar Vulin has joined protesters at the Hungarian border, according to ITV’s James Mates.

Earlier Vulin warned that Serbia would not accept anyone turned back from Hungarian territory.

He was quoted as saying: “That’s no longer our responsibility. They are on Hungarian territory and I expect the Hungarian state to behave accordingly towards them.”

Angela Merkel had been due to give a press conference this morning after her meeting about the refugee crisis with her Austria counterpart Werner Faymann.

That meeting has taken place, according to a tweet from her spokesman, and the press conference is due to begin any minute now.

Hungary’s crackdown on migrants crossing its southern frontier could breach its obligations under United Nations and European Union rules on refugees and asylum, the International Organisation for Migration told Reuters.

Hungary “has obligations to follow which it looks like this new legislation would be a contravention of,” Magdalena Majkowska-Tomkin, head of the Hungary office of the IOM told Reuters. “Both the international UN conventions on the status of refugees, but also EU legislation regarding asylum and also regarding criminal procedures.”

Majkowska-Tomkin said the IOM saw scope for a legal challenge to the new rules. “From my perspective Hungary needs to respect its international obligations and allow people to claim asylum and provide facilities for them that are adequate for their condition.”

The aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières says one of its three boats in the Mediterranean has rescued 119 people stranded on a rubber boat.

Earlier, AFP reported the deaths of at least 22 migrants, including four children, trying to reach Greece by boat. They drowned when their vessel sank off Turkey’s south-west coast, local media reported.

Turkish coastguards recovered nine more bodies, bringing the toll to 22, and rescued 211 migrants from the wooden boat, which set off from the south-western resort town of Datca for the nearby Greek island of Kos, Dogan news agency reported.

Rescue efforts were still continuing, according to the news agency.

The number of migrants who are losing their lives in the Mediterranean continues to increase dramatically, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

Over this past weekend, and through the first days of this week, an estimated 72 migrants have lost their lives in their attempt to cross into the Greek islands from Turkey.

Additionally, IOM Turkey received data from the Turkish Coast Guard indicating some 13 migrants already have died in Turkish waters through the beginning of September, making this month the deadliest on that stretch of the Mediterranean in two years.

Updated

Here is a clip of migrants and refugees at Hungary’s border with Serbia demanding that the authorities “open” the new barrier.

Updated

Former boxing champion Amir Khan is leading an aid convoy to help refugees arriving in Lesbos. Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, the 28-year-old says he had been inspired to get involved by the sight of innocent people suffering. The convoy has been organised by the Amir Khan Foundation and Penny Appeal.

Updated

Serbia has warned it would not accept anyone turned back from Hungarian territory.

“That’s no longer our responsibility,” Aleksandar Vulin, the minister in charge of policy on migrants, told the Tanjug state news agency, according to Reuters.

“They are on Hungarian territory and I expect the Hungarian state to behave accordingly towards them.”

Vulin also said that Serbia was not consulted about Hungary’s border crackdown, according to Szabolcs Panyi from the Hungarian news site Indexhu.

Updated

Hungarian authorities say they detained 60 migrants for attempting to illegally enter the country’s southern border with Serbia by breaching a razor-wire fence, AP reports.

Gyorgy Bakondi, homeland security adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said the authorities caught 45 people trying to cross at the southern border and 15 deeper in the country.

They got across by damaging the fence and are now in police custody and are being charged with committing offences under the new laws. The authorities are repairing the spots where the fence was damaged, Bakondi told a news conference.

Updated

Here’s that live feed of the scene at Hungary’s border with Serbia.

Live feed of Hungary’s border with Serbia

Tension appears to be escalating at Hungary’s border with Serbia. Reuters says hundreds of migrants are pushing at the border gates blocking the motorway from Serbia.

Loudspeaker announcements can be heard on a Reuters live feed from the border.

Fergal Keane provides translations of the announcements.

Meanwhile, some people have declared a hunger strike in protest at the new border crackdown.

Updated

Hungary’s decision to declare a state of emergency at its border with Serbia paves the way for the deployment troops to migrants entering the country, according to AP.

Technically, parliament must still approve the deployment of the military. However, Associated Press reporters at the border have already spotted heavily armed military personnel with vehicles and dogs at the border in recent days.

It also has more on the protests at the border.

There were chaotic scenes at the main border crossing near Roszke, Hungary, as the Hungarians opened a small temporary office to process people on the edge of no man’s land and crowds tried to squeeze inside. A first group of about 20 managed to get in, but thousands remained outside.

A group of migrants also blocked the main highway connecting Serbia and Hungary, saying they will refuse food and water until they are allowed to cross into Hungary. The sit-in protest is happening on the no man’s land between Roszke and Horgos, Serbia, which is the main border crossing between the two countries.

Migrants at Horgos crossing at the Serbia-Hungary border on Tuesday.
Migrants at Horgos crossing at the Serbia-Hungary border on Tuesday. Photograph: Koca Sulejmanovic/EPA

People are forming a “human blockade” in protest at the physical blockade at Hungary’s border with Serbia, according to the BBC’s Fergal Keane.

Updated

Border protest

Refugees have begun protesting at the border crackdown at Hungary’s crossing with Serbia, according to reporters at the scene.

Migrants hold a poster as they protest at the closed Roszke-Horgos border crossing at the border between Hungary and Serbia on Tuesday.
Migrants hold a poster as they protest at the closed Roszke-Horgos border crossing at the border between Hungary and Serbia on Tuesday. Photograph: Tamas Soki/AP

Frontex records 500,000 migrants to Europe

More than half a million migrants have appeared at Europe borders in the first eight months of the year, according to the EU’s border agency Frontex.

It also announced five consecutive monthly records in the numbers of people reported, with the figure for August alone climbing to 156,000.

The Greek islands again saw the biggest number of detections in August at 88 000, an 11-fold rise compared to the same month last year. Nearly three-quarters of the people arriving from Turkey were Syrians.

“The Greek islands continue to be under an intense migratory pressure. Just last week Frontex offered additional staff to help identify and register the new arrivals on Lesbos and Kos, which have been particularly affected,” said Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri.

A large number of the migrants arriving in Greece make their way towards Hungary, where the number of detections at its border with Serbia increased 20-fold to more than 52 000 in August, bringing the number so far this year to more than 155 000.

Some 171,000 people have claimed asylum in Hungary in last three months, Bakondi said. So far only 300 asylum claims have been granted and 4,000 people have been deported. The procedure on a further 65,000 claims was stopped after those applying “disappeared”, Bakondi said. He added that another 95,000 claims are still being processed.

Bakondi said 66,896 Syrians had crossed into Hungary in the last three months. But he pointed out that nationals from 74 others countries had also entered Hungary. They included more 32,900 from Afghanistan and 3,630 from Iraq.

Bakondi described yesterday’s record figure of 9,380 arrivals as “huge influx”.

Updated

Hungary declares a state of emergency at border

Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two of its southern counties bordering Serbia, according to government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs.

The measure paves the way for the deployment of the army to assist police with border patrol and migrant-related duties he said told a press conference in Szeged.

Fifteen people have been arrested for damaging Hungary’s new border fence, an official has announced.

Gyorgy Bakondi, homeland security adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, also confirmed that a “transit zone” has been set up at Hungary’s border with Serbia.

Those applying for asylum in the zone will be sent back to Serbia, he said. The legal status of the transit zone is not the same as entering Hungarian territory, Bakondi explained.

Updated

The United Nations says its “deeply disappointed” at the failure of European Union interiors ministers to reach a final consensus on a plan to relocate of 120,000 refugees.

“Decisive agreement is needed without further delay to address the needs, as is bold action based on solidarity from all member states,” the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement.

A majority of EU interior ministers, meeting in Brussels on Monday, agreed in principle to share out 120,000 asylum seekers on top of some 40,000 distributed on a voluntary basis so far.

Updated

Hungary’s former Socialist prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has travelled to the frontier with Serbia to denounce the Hungarian government’s border crackdown.

He described the policies of his anti-immigration successor Viktor Orban as “disgraceful”.

In an interview with the Canadian broadcaster CTV over the weekend, Gyurcsany said the erection of the border fence was a symbolic gesture by Orban aimed at placating the far-right.

“The Hungarian prime minister would like to represent himself as a very strong man trying to gain new voters from the … right,” he said.

Updated

Britain’s former foreign secretary David Miliband has attacked Hungary’s border crackdown as “shameful and misguided”.

Speaking to Channel 4 News, Miliband, now director of the US-based International Rescue Committee, said the construction of a border fence with Serbia would “lock up mountains of problems”.

He added: “When you build fences you empower criminal gangs to charge more to get round them.”

Updated

In the next hour or so German chancellor Angela Merkel is due to make her first statements to the press since her government reintroduced border controls.

She is schedule to give a press conference after meeting Austria’s chancellor Werner Faymann.

Politico Europe reckons Merkel was forced to partially reverse her government’s welcoming response to refugees after opposition from local governments.

The chancellor faced intense pressure from state and local officials expected to house and feed the growing wave of asylum seekers heading to the country.

Their message to the German leader: genug, enough.

In many cases local governments have proved unable to cope with the large numbers.

“The mood is changing, and fast,” said a senior official from Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union. At a meeting of the party’s executive committee on Monday, state and local representatives made it clear they were overwhelmed by the masses.

“Every mayor likes to be a good German, as long as the refugees are not put into his gym,” the source said.

German chancellor Angela Merkel talks to secretary general Peter Tauber and to the head of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet at the beginning of the CDU party committee meeting in Berlin on Monday.
German chancellor Angela Merkel talks to secretary general Peter Tauber and to the head of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet at the beginning of the CDU party committee meeting in Berlin on Monday. Photograph: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/Corbis

Updated

Frontex, the EU’s border agency, has been hit by a drastic shortage of border guards in the Greek islands, on the land border between Greece and Turkey, Bulgaria and Turkey and along the Hungarian border with Serbia, according to a report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Last April, EU heads of state signed off the €26.8m emergency grant at a high-level summit in what was portrayed as Europe uniting in its response to mass tragedies in the Mediterranean.

The money was supposed to allow Frontex to lease border guards and equipment from member states who would then be compensated by Frontex with the extra funds ...

Frontex officials admitted to the Bureau it “badly need(s) border guards on the Greek islands, border guards and technical equipment on the land border between Greece and Turkey, Bulgaria and Turkey and, crucially along the Hungarian border with Serbia.”

Offers of key personnel and equipment from member states “are still very scarce”, said a Frontex spokeswoman.

Senior Frontex officials have warned that it may even be forced to hand some of the cash back to the Commission.

Frontex’s deputy director Gil Arias-Fernández told the Bureau that having the money was “useless” if it did not have the equipment to spend it on.

The Bureau also found that despite more than two million refugees amassing in Turkey and planning their dangerous trips across the borders, Frontex has not had a single member of staff based there gathering intelligence about smugglers.

Frontex issued this response:

“Each member state has the sufficient capacity to handle border control, but when the migratory pressure becomes exceptionally high, they might require additional assistance of either technical equipment or specialised border guards. The role of Frontex is to coordinate the deployment of such additional assets and human resources from other EU/Schengen Area countries, as described in our founding regulation.”

Another migrant boat heading to Greece from Turkey is reported to have sunk, according to AFP.

At least 13 migrants including four children trying to reach Greece drowned Tuesday when their boat from Turkey sank in international waters, local media reported.

Turkish coastguards rescued 205 migrants from the wooden boat which set off from Turkish holiday resort town of Datca in the southwest for the Greek island of Kos, the private Dogan news agency said. The nationalities of the migrants are not yet known.

Rescue efforts were still continuing, according to the news agency.

There has been a dramatic spike in the numbers of migrants - mainly from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa - seeking to leave Turkey in rickety boats for Greece in the hope of finding new lives in the European Union.

At least 34 people, including 15 children, drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized in high winds off a Greek island on Sunday.

Human rights observers have been ordered to leave Hungary’s border crossing with Serbia, according to Tirana Hassan, director of crisis response at Amnesty International.

Earlier she photographed riot police arriving at the border which she characterised as “Fortress Europe”.

The main official border crossing point between Serbia and Hungary was closed to migrants on Tuesday, the UN’s refugee agency has confirmed.

At midnight, it shut the crossing near Roszke, leaving hundreds of migrants to queue with no apparent hope of entering.

“The border was shut and has yet to re-open,” UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch told AFP from the border.

“Our staff do not have access, and the Hungarian authorities have not let us know about any schedule they have for re-opening the border,” he added.

First arrests under Hungary's border crackdown

The first arrests have occurred under Hungary’s new border laws, according to Reuters.

Hungarian police detained nine Syrian and seven Afghan migrants early on Tuesday for illegally crossing the Serbian border fence, a police spokeswoman said.

Police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said the migrants were suspected of lifting the razor wire fence to get into Hungary, which constitutes a crime under the new laws that took effect at midnight.

Under the new system Hungary has designated Serbia as a safe country so if asylum seekers have entered from Serbia without already applying for asylum there – they face automatic expulsion within eight days.

Migrants arrested by Hungarian police officers and soldiers after they tried to cross the border line between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary, on Tuesday.
Migrants arrested by Hungarian police officers and soldiers after they tried to cross the border line between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary, on Tuesday. Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP

Hungarian MEP Gyorgy Schopflin has defended his country’s tough new border laws.

He said Hungary could not cope with the “flood” of people arriving. “It is this shock that I think the government is dealing with,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. He suggested that the new controls would help calm tension in Hungary. “The more the refugees come in this uncontrolled flood, the more the anti-refugee sentiments arises,” he said.

Schopflin, a member of the Fidesz the party founded by Hungary’s anti-immigration prime minister Viktor Orban, also rejected the idea of EU quotas for resettling refugees. He said: “We don’t know if we want the commission to impose obligatory quotas. Voluntary is another story.”

Schopflin said the “silent majority” of Europeans did not welcome more refugees despite the visible welcome made by many members of the public.

And he insisted that it was this public rejection that had forced Germany to reintroduce border controls. Schopflin also claimed that the number refugees arriving was a threat to security and some of Europe’s core values. He said: “If you have a large number of unassimilated recently-arrived migrants, they are potentially capable of destabilising law and order which of course puts the whole of democracy and liberalism in danger.”

Migrants arrested by Hungarian police officers and soldiers after they tried to cross the border line between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary.
Migrants arrested by Hungarian police officers and soldiers after they tried to cross the border line between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary. Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP

The border crackdown in Hungary comes a day after the authorities reported a new record number of migrants. The Hungarian police said they intercepted 9,380 people entering Hungary on Monday, a sharp rise the previous record set the day before.

Police in Hungary recorded a record number of new arrivals on Monday
Police in Hungary recorded a record number of new arrivals on Monday Photograph: Hungarian Police

Summary

Welcome to live coverage of the continuing refugee crisis gripping Europe as laws to criminalise migrants in Hungary come into force.

Here’s a roundup of the latest developments:

Updated

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