Romania's vice premier and Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea has informed President Klaus Iohannis that new security measures are now enforced at the Romanian-Serbian border despite no immediate danger of a "migratory flux," and that local structures should be ready for receiving and processing approximately 1,500 would-be immigrants.
The old Austro-Hungarian conglomerate is acting up in strange ways. A furious wave of refugees last week spurred the Hungarian concoction of barbed wire erected to wall off immigrants, entering the so-called "paradise" composed of France, the Netherlands and Germany.
It’s a strange feeling seeing all those people march away, like heading to some big concert party, treading on the rails, down the fields and up the slopes, camping under the starry sky. It reminded me of Woodstock.
One other way to get there is the highway; big trucks barreling down the lanes and into the Schengen Eden. But the other day one of these trucks was idling on the emergency lane between Parndorf and Neusiedle am See towards Vienna, and a highway maintenance employee informed the Austrian authorities of the foul smell reeking out of the truck.
"We’ve found 20, 30, 40, maybe even 50 people inside the truck, already dead," declared Hans Peter Doskozil, the Burgenland county police chief.
It turned out there were 71. The corpses were found in an advanced discomposed state, the truck abandoned, no trace of the driver. "It’s an abominable act, something that hasn’t happened in years in Burgenland," Hans, said, adding that he was convinced he was dealing with organized crime.
It turns out the truck had belonged to a Slovakian company owned by the Czech finance minister, sold recently to its present owner, a Romanian businessman, for a Hungarian company, as confirmed by the truck’s license plates.
Romanian Police have denied the driver’s Romanian identity, stating that the truck operator was Bulgarian – though without elaborating on how they have arrived at this conclusion.
"This is a dark day for us. This tragedy affects us all," said Austria's Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner.
"Obviously, we’re all shattered. What happened has reminded us we ought to rapidly solve the immigration problem according to the European spirit," added German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "That’s why I think that being a rich continent, Europe has to live up to the current situation."
It's not the only incident. Tens of trucks and vans crammed with hopeful African people are speeding down the same highway, greedy stupid drivers taking advantage of their dwindling finances, trying to avoid police road blocks, crashing and injuring the dreaming lot.
Thousands of refugees have occupied a Budapest train station waiting to be sorted out, stamped and sent to their imagined future. They sing their songs, write letters, pray to their deities. Then a woman gave birth right there, in no man’s land. Life goes on.
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