Ministry: Electrified Fence A Rumour
- 15 May 2017 8:22 AM
Border fences are not electrified; rumours are just a way of fomenting tensions, the Interior Ministry said in a statement relayed to state news agency MTI on Friday. In response to the report released by Index, it said a system built alongside the double fence “is not capable of endangering human life” and no reports related to workplace injuries have reached the authorities.
A major communication problem developed on Friday about whether electricity was introduced into the fences installed on the Hungarian-Serb border, Magyar Nemzet observed on Saturday.
A report by Index unleashed the dispute as it posted photos of a notice board with the words ‘Caution, electric fence’. On the other side the same message in Arabic script can be observed.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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MTI photo: Kelemen Zoltán Gergely
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