More than 386,000 migrants passed through Hungary in 2015 before its borders were closed in October.
An organiser of the Paris attacks "recruited" some migrants from Budapest's main train station, Hungarian officials have said.
He then left Hungary with the men, PM Viktor Orban's chief of staff said, without providing more details.
A government spokesman confirmed to the Associated Press that the man was Salah Abdeslam, who remains on the run. The Paris attacks, on 13 November, killed 130 people.
Meanwhile, a migrant believed to be from Morocco has been electrocuted at the Greece-FYROM [***] border.
The man died after climbing onto the roof of a train carriage and touching an overhead cable during scuffles, local police said.
FYROM [***] authorities have only been letting in Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans who are fleeing conflict, sparking protests from groups of Pakistanis, Iranians and Moroccans.
Tear gas was fired on Thursday as police unsuccessfully moved to clear a border crossing blocked by those groups, BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris reports.
He estimates some 5,000 people are now stuck at the border, including 43 busloads of Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans who arrived overnight.
In Hungary, national newspapers on Thursday carried full-page government adverts attacking an EU refugee relocation plan....
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Paris attack suspect 'recruited team' in Hungary...
ReplyDeleteOne of the suspected ringleaders of last month's Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, travelled to Hungary where he "recruited a team" from unregistered migrants passing through, senior Hungarian government officials said Thursday.
"I can confirm that one of the main organizers of the Paris terror attacks was in Budapest," Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff Janos Lazar told a regular news conference in Budapest.
Lazar did not name the man or say when he was in Hungary, nor whether those he picked up went on to take part in the November 13 atrocities in the French capital claimed by the Islamic State group.
Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, a government source later confirmed that the man was in fact Abdeslam, a key suspect in the Paris attacks who is currently on the run.
Lazar meanwhile said the suspect had been in Keleti station in Budapest, "recruiting a team from immigrants who had refused to register with Hungarian authorities", referring to migrants.
He then "left the country together with them," Lazar added.
Until mid-September, when Hungary sealed its border with Serbia, thousands of migrants and refugees spent days or even weeks in makeshift camps at Keleti station on their way to northern Europe after travelling up through the Balkans.
A French source familiar with the investigation told AFP that a car rented by Abdeslam is known to have been in Hungary on September 17...................http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/94443-151204-paris-attack-suspect-recruited-team-in-hungary-govt
4/12/15