Bakondi said negotiations with the spokesmen of the migrants are under way and neither a breakout of illegal migrants nor an attack on the police is likely. He stressed that the laws apply to both foreigners and migrants.

Of their three elected spokesmen, a Syrian man forwarded a petition to the authorities and then called on the gathered migrants to depart for Budapest. Police said it will prevent them from leaving the guarded centre.

Tuesday evening an 18-year-old Afghan man complained that another migrant had bitten off a piece of his left ear. Police arrested the assailant, a 22-year-old Afghan. The injured man was hospitalised.

Tempers cooled at the refugee camp by Wednesday evening, state TV channel M1 reported in the evening. Most of the protesters returned to their shelter.

The mostly male migrants guarded at Kiskunhalas were earlier registered in Greece. On the basis of the Dublin treaty the Hungarian authorities wish to send them back to Greece. Their applications for Hungarian asylum have been suspended, and the Greek authorities have been notified but are not responding.

Another division of the rioters in Kiskunhalas are those who were registered in Hungary for the first time and then sent back from Germany, France, Austria and England.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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