Barbed wire

Refugees stand behind a fence near Horgos at the Hungarian border with Serbia. Photo: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images.

There Will Be No Leave Today

Ásotthalom, Hungary: A man holds his child on the Serbian side of the fence bordering Hungary, their passage to western Europe having stalled. Photo: László Balogh/Reuters.

Aufseherinnen

The camera operator for a Hungarian nationalist television channel who was filmed kicking two refugee children and tripping up a man near the border village of Röszke is facing a criminal investigation. Hungarian prosecutors said a criminal case for breach of the peace has been opened against Petra László of N1TV, an internet-based channel closely linked to Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party. [Read more].

• Nadia Khomami, Hungarian camera operator who kicked refugees faces criminal investigation, The Guardian, September 10, 2015

This video grab made on September 9 shows Hungarian camerawoman Petra László kicking a refugee young girl as she is running away with other migrants from a police line during disturbances at Roszke, southern Hungary.

Responsibility for the Holocaust

BUDAPEST – L’emergenza migranti si aggrava ancora: dopo che ieri il vertice straordinario di Bruxelles si è chiuso senza un accordo sulle quote, oggi in Ungheria è entrata in vigore la nuova legge che prevede fino a tre anni di carcere per chiunque e a qualsiasi titolo tenti di entrare illegalmente nel Paese. E dalla mezzanotte la polizia ha già arrestato 16 migranti entrati dalla Serbia. Centinaia quelli bloccati al confine. [Read more].

• Ungheria, arrestati 16 migranti. Centinaia di profughi bloccati al confine, R.it, 15 settembre 2015

Budapest, Hungary: Captured Jewish women in Wesselényi Street, 20–22 October 1944. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-680-8285A-08.

Csipkerózsika

Roszke, Hungary: A girl sleeps in a temporary holding camp close to the Hungarian border with Serbia. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Mihály Orbán, has said he wants to speed up construction of a fence meant to stop migrants on the southern border with Serbia, a project which has missed two previous deadlines. Photo: Marko Drobnjaković/AP.

Hospitality ethics

• In marcia per fuggire dall’Ungheria, la polizia usa gli spray urticanti, Il Sole 24 ORE, 7 settembre 2015

Hungarian policemen stand by a family of refugees protesting on the tracks at the railway station in the town of Bicske, Hungary, September 3, 2015. Photo: László Balogh/Reuters.

Quatre étoiles

Röske, Hungary: A Syrian boy sleeps at a checkpoint after crossing the border illegally from Serbia with his family. Photo: Santi Palacios/AP.

Life Along the Line

Horgoš, Serbia: Syrians walk along a railway line as they try to cross from Serbia into Hungary. Photo: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images.

Hungarian collaborators with €uroland über alles

• Migranti, in Ungheria disordini con polizia in centro di accoglienza, R.it, 26 agosto 2015

L’innalzamento della barriera di filo spinato al confine tra Ungheria e Serbia dovrebbe terminare il 31 agosto. Nel frattempo migliaia di profughi si stanno ammassando al confine e cercano in ogni modo di oltrepassarlo. In queste immagini i tentativi diperati di superare il filo spinato scivolando sotto la barriera per poi essere subito fermati dalla polizia ungherese schierata per il respingimento (AP).

Crimes against humanity

Migrants try to climb on a train heading towards Serbia at Gevgelija train station on the border between Macedonia and Greece. Many migrants attempt to cross Macedonia and Serbia to enter the European Union via Hungary, a country that will finish building its anti-migrant fence on its southern border with Serbia by the end of August, three months ahead of schedule. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images.

Lavender’s blue

A pregnant Syrian woman sleeps as she travels on a train heading north from Gevgelija to Tabanovce in Macedonia, at the border with Serbia. Migrants are attempting to cross Macedonia and Serbia and enter the European Union via Hungary, a country that will finish building an anti-migrant fence on its southern border by the end of August, ahead of the previous November target. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images.

Train de vie

(ANSA) – Berlino, 23 luglio – Le ferrovie ungheresi hanno trasportato i profughi arrivati nel sud del paese in vagoni chiusi. È quello che riporta il quotidiano Népszabadság, secondo quanto riferisce l’Apa. “Questo vagone viaggia con le porte chiuse” si legge sui vagoni del convoglio che ha trasportato i migranti a Budapest. Inoltre gli immigrati sarebbero stati costretti a viaggiare nei vagoni per le biciclette, isolati dal resto dei passeggeri, secondo il portale hvg.hu. Forti le proteste di alcuni media ungheresi.

• Ungheria, così trasportano i migranti: ammassati in vagoni chiusi, la Repubblica.it, 24 luglio 2015
• Profughi trasportati in vagoni chiusi, ANSA.it, 23 luglio 2015

Wall of Shame

• Ungheria costruirà barriera al confine con Serbia per fermare migranti, R.it, 17 giugno 2015

Hungarian Jewish women and children from Carpatho-Ruthenia after their arrival at the Auschwitz deathcamp (May/June 1944). Photo from the Auschwitz Album. Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-N0827-318 / CC-BY-SA