'Europe’s
Guantanamo': Refugees in Hungary fed 'like animals in pen' (VIDEO)
RT,
11
September, 2015
Dramatic
footage has emerged showing people at Hungary's main refugee camp on
the border with Serbia being fed like wild animals. Crowds of
refugees, children and women among them, shout to get the officers'
attention, struggling to catch the bread thrown to them through the
air.
Some
150 people can be seen at Roszke camp in a fenced-in enclosure inside
a big hall as Hungarian police, equipped with helmets and hygiene
masks, throw bags of sandwiches at them.
The
video was shot secretly by an Austrian volunteer who visited the
flashpoint camp earlier this week. The footage, which was uploaded on
YouTube late Thursday, had over 25,000 views by Friday afternoon.
"It
was like animals being fed in a pen, like Guantanamo in Europe,"
Alexander Spritzendorfer, whose wife, Michaela filmed the scenes,
told AFP. The couple came to Roszke to bring food, clothes and
medication to the refugees.
"It
was inhumane and it really speaks for these people that they didn't
fight over the food despite being clearly very hungry," Michaela
Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser said.
"It
was around 8 o'clock and they were giving dinner to people," she
said. "There
were maybe 100 people trying to catch these plastic bags with
sausages... They were not able to organize a camp and treat them like
human beings," Reuters
quoted Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser as saying.
Hungarian
police said Friday they had launched an urgent investigation into the
video.
Meanwhile,
government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs claimed that people were spending
only a few hours in an "optimal
case" at
this detention center. But they can remain there for up to two days
under a procedure permitted by the EU.
"I
can see policemen who have been performing their duties for months,
trying to take care of 23,000 migrants arriving continuously day by
day, while there is no cooperation whatsoever on their part," Kovacs
told Reuters. "I
can see they are trying to maintain order among those who are unable
to line up for food."
Europe’s #refugeecrisis:
Trash trail left behind by asylum seekers upsets
localshttp://t.co/YZDHD4OQbLpic.twitter.com/zoCJSKiXQW
— RT
(@RT_com) September
10, 2015
With
Europe experiencing an escalating refugee crisis, Hungary is bearing
the brunt of the latest influx as thousands of refugees flee violence
in the Middle East and North Africa. Tens of thousands of asylum
seekers are entering the European Union, using Hungary as a transit
country as they seek to reach better-off countries such as Germany,
Austria and Sweden.
On
Wednesday, a journalist for Hungary’s N1TV channel, associated with
the far-right Jobbik party, was fired after her colleagues filmed her
kicking and tripping up migrants, including children, fleeing from
the police. Camerawoman Petra László was filming at a migrants’
center near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border
when hundreds of migrants broke through a police cordon in a field.
Hungarian
journalist fired after kicking, tripping up refugees on
videohttp://t.co/cNmkYzenh5pic.twitter.com/ntJrN1fjYG
— RT
(@RT_com) September
9, 2015
At
one point, she found herself in the middle of a throng of people
running from the police. After a couple of migrants accidentally
bumped into László, she moved to one and aimed a kick at a young
refugee girl passing by. Later on, filming a police officer trying to
detain a man carrying a young boy, the journalist apparently
deliberately stuck her leg out and tripped the man up, causing him to
fall on the ground along with the child.
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