According to NGOs there are a few hundred more refugees waiting to enter the country. The majority of refugees have already been transferred to reception centres across the country. Foto: BoBo
According to NGOs there are a few hundred more refugees waiting to enter the country. The majority of refugees have already been transferred to reception centres across the country. Foto: BoBo

The police continues registering foreigners at the border crossings and transporting them to refugee centres across Slovenia.

Meanwhile, Croatian media have reported that Slovenia's police has started putting up a fence at the international Obrežje-Bregana border crossing. However, MMC journalist, Boris Vasev, has found out that the police was only moving the fence (which was already there) for about 50 meters.

Novo Mesto police press officer, Alenka Drenik, stresses that the police is not putting the fence on the border crossing, but right next to it, "to ensure a continuous flow of traffic" in case of another influx of people.

Unofficial sources tell MMC that a new wave of migrants, counting a few thousand people, is nearing Slovenia.

In the evening and early hours of the day police officers continued registering and transporting foreigners inside the country. Both those foreigners who have illegally crossed the state border, as well as those foreigners who wished to enter the country legally at the official border crossings, but did not fulfill the conditions for entry to Slovenia, informs the General Police Directorate.

A group of refugees, who had been waiting for three days to enter Slovenia, protested on the road at the Obrežje border crossing around midnight. Because of the protest the police had to close down the international border crossing for around one hour, which caused traffic delays and a long queue of vehicles. The border crossing was reopened again for passenger vehicles around 1:30 a.m. According to eyewitnesses the protest was sparked by activists.

In the name of the refugees, Vael Hanuna, a translator in Arabic, praised the work of the police:"The police has been remarkable. There haven't been any forms violence or evil looks." Hanuna adds that the only problem is the very slow procedure of transferring the refugees to reception centres. "It would be much easier if people were processed a bit quicker. They've been sleeping here for three days now and it has already rained twice."

Police officers transfer the refugees only then, when there is enough room at the centres for the arrival of new groups. According to information from the police, there are currently no more foreigners waiting to enter the country at the Obrežje border crossing.