STA, 29 April 2019 - Police apprehended more than 250 foreigners who entered Slovenia unlawfully and tried to bypass the border control during the weekend. The Novo Mesto police arrested two Serbian citizens transporting six Pakistani illegal migrants.
The two Serbians were driving a vehicle with Slovenian plates and were intercepted near Trebnje (SE). Both of them have been detained. Five of the transported Pakistanis were handed over to the Croatian authorities, while one has asked for international protection.
At Dobova, the major railway border crossing with Croatia, police officers found a Moroccan citizen who was hiding under the carriage of a freight train from Serbia.
On Sunday night, police apprehended seven Afghan illegal migrants stowed away under the carriage of a similar freight train. The foreigners were handed over to the Croatian authorities.
The Novo Mesto police apprehended 96 foreigners who crossed the border unlawfully over the weekend. Most of them were from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Algeria and are still being processed.
The Koper police apprehended 74 illegal migrants, with 16 of them having already asked for international protection. Some of them are still being processed, while 49 have already been sent back to Croatia. Four Austrian citizens were released after being processed. Most of the apprehended foreigners were from Afghanistan.
The Ljubljana police caught 88 foreigners who have illegally crossed the state border over the past weekend and additional 23 by Monday morning.
The police data shows that the number of illegal border crossings has significantly increased this year - by almost 150% in the first three months.
