Closing the final gap in the Hungarian-Serbian border (photo: Orange Files).
On this night the “new era” begins: the Orbán government is closing the final gap in the Hungarian-Serbian border fence, the place where the now defunct Szabadka-Szeged railway crosses the frontier, the place where tens of thousands of refugees have entered Hungary over the past few weeks en route to the West. The news has spread quickly among the tens of thousands more who are still on their way: Hungary will seal its border on midnight of September 14–15. The push to make it to the frontier before this hour has been intense, a massive forced march up the railway and dusty trackside roads in northern Serbia: the UNHCR official at the border says that his people counted around 29,000 refugees crossing the frontier into Hungary over the previous two days.
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- Refugees pass through the final gap in the Hungarian-Serbian border.
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- Sign along the railway tracks in Serbia about two miles from the border.
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- The first refugees to be stopped at the Hungarian-Serbian border.
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- Hungarian army troops patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border.
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- Refugees waiting to board bus at the regular border.
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- The curtain falls: closing the last gap in the border.
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Below is an Orange Files video of the closing of the border made from the Serbian side.
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