07-04-2011
Two 16-year-old illegal refugees from Afghanistan were arrested by the officers of Border Police of Slovakia in the village of Rusky Hrabovec in the district of Sobrantce. Exhausted under age runaways were helped and handed over to the workers of Administration of Labour, Social Affairs and Family who brought teenagers into an orphanage for under age persons. According to the words of the boys, they came from a native country some months ago and all this period they stayed in Transcarpathian region waiting for a “window” at Ukrainian-Slovakian border. “Trip” into the countries of European Union cost their relatives € 12 thousand for each…it was reported to Slovakian Mass Media by press-secretary of Border Police Administration of Sobrantce, Agnesa Kopernytska.