225.000 refugees have crossed into Slovenia since October 16 when the flow of migrants was rerouted to Slovenia. About 210.000 people have already left the country. Slovenia is another stop on their way to Northern or Western Europe. These people have to be properly received, registered and fed; from a security standpoint, they also have to be kept under surveillance. This is what volunteers, doctors, humanitarian organizations, civil protection units, and both the army and police are in charge of.
200,000 people, 23 police interventions
The General Police Administration said on Thursday that police only had to intervene 23 times since October 16. They took note of 6 cases of alleged criminal activity and 17 public order offences. 188,000 migrants had entered the country by then. Police had to resort to force in 9 cases. According to the General Police Administration, force had to be used when scuffles broke out between the refugees. In 2 of those cases, knives were involved.
In other words, about 99.99 percent of all refugees have never caused any problems, even if one takes into account that more than one person was involved in some of those incidents.
Dragan Petrovec of the Ljubljana Faculty of Law had this to say about the issue: "The crime rate among refugees has been really low. We would have expected more problems. These people are completely exhausted, so even a small thing can trigger a strong reaction in them. Hence, we must not label them delinquents or terrorists if they do react in an inappropriate way. However, it seems that such cases are few and far between."