Hungary is the only country besides Denmark where underage migrants receive the same services as locals, and an increasing number of migrants are exploiting this opportunity, he said.

Accessing Wi-Fi at the centre, they establish contact with their relatives and acquaintances, who then pay human smugglers to transport them further west, Rétvári said.

Some migrants carried leaflets describing in Urdu what they should say in order to be accepted in the Fót orphanage, he said.

The origin of the leaflets is unknown, he said, speculating that aid organisations “financed by Hungarian- American business magnate George Soros” may have produced them.

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