20,000 Migrants ‘Almost All Armed with Knives’ Pressing to Cross into Europe’s Welfare Countries through Croatia

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More than 20,000 migrants are gathering to storm the Bosnia-Croatia border to enter European nations and Austrian intelligence warns that many are armed with knives.  There have been clashes with police.  Almost all of the migrants are young men from Pakistan but there are also many Iranians, Algerians and Moroccans.  The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has provided prepaid debit cards that are sustaining most of migrants.  Pro-mass migration activists are trying to compel Croatian police to stop protecting the border by warning they will face pressure from NGOs and global media outlets. 

A breakthrough of more than 20,000 migrants preparing to cross the Bosnia-Croatia border and on to European Union (EU) nations is imminent, according to Austrian intelligence, which warns many are “armed”.

Migrant attempts to break into the EU have grown increasingly bold and forceful, with police and illegal immigrants injured in several clashes since the middle of October, when hundreds began camping at the border — reportedly after having been given misinformation that Croatia was set to open its frontiers.

According to Italian news agency ANSA, local media reports the groups send numbers of young people and children towards the police line to chant “open border, open border”, while clashes see mobs of young men charge at police, and throw stones and other projectiles.

“The Croats are trying really hard to handle this alone, and have even positioned special forces in the area”, but authorities in the Balkan nation are struggling to cope with worrying developments at the border, according to sources at the Austrian Interior Ministry reported by Austrian bestselling newspaper Kronen Zeitung.

“More [illegal immigrants] are arriving — there are no more families and there are hardly any women left,” sources at the ministry’s migration department are claimed to have said.

“Ninety-five per cent of these migrants who are trying to break through are young men, almost all of whom are armed with knives. A border policeman has already been stabbed,”  the source said, adding that “the majority come from Pakistan but there are also many Iranians, Algerians and Moroccans”.

In terms of migrants’ maintenance and day-to-day living costs, ministry sources said the supply of provisions to the masses of people was being “fairly well-coordinated”, reporting that many of them have been equipped with prepaid debit cards provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

According to the refugee agency’s website, such cards are supplied to migrants as part of its “programmes for direct cash-aid to the displaced” in cooperation with Mastercard, which in 2016 announced it was distributing prepaid debit cards to provide migrants travelling towards EU nations through Serbia with “mobility, flexibility and dignity”.

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