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Police officers look at migrants sitting on the windows of a train at the railway station, near the Slovenian-Croatian border in Dobova, Brezice, on September 17, 2015.
Slovenia has stopped rail traffic at the border crossing with Croatia after a train carrying 200 refugees was intercepted in Dobova. The Balkan state vowed to shelter up to 5,000 asylum seekers. Some 8,000 people poured into Croatia in just two days and more are projected to arrive shortly.
Slovenia is the latest European country fielding a massive influx of refugees mostly fleeing war-torn Syria.
On Thursday Slovenian police halted a train carrying some 200 refugees coming from Croatia. According to official statistics, this was the largest group of refugees that tried to enter the Balkan state since the crisis flared up in Europe so far. Slovenian police said that the migrants stopped at Dobova train station on the Slovenian side of the border would be returned to Croatia.
"We will return them to Croatia in the shortest time possible," Anton Stubljar, head of the sector for state border and foreigners at the Novo Mesto police administration, told the media.
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As a sign of "protection", "solidarity" and "respect", Slovenia is ready to provide shelter to up to 5,000 refugees, Slovenia's ambassador to London Tadej Rupel
told the
Guardian.
"What we are emphasizing is that refugees and migrants need protection, our solidarity, compassion and respect. We are ready and committed to all the humanitarian needs of those who are migrating and for refugees," Rupel said.
Some 2,000 people would be accommodated in buildings such as sports centers while another 3,000 in tented camps around the country, according to Rupel. But even hosting such capacity will require additional help from the government and "everyone who understands the human suffering of the people fleeing war-ravaged areas,"Slovenia's Red Cross has said in a
statement.
Comment: This situation seems as though it's simultaneously planned and shear madness because those writing the script are psychopaths. And, by a majority of the West blindly following the script, the planet has been thrown into shear madness. Though it is extreme to say that a new kind of holocaust could grip Europe, the 14 years of senseless slaughter that led up to this 'migrant crisis' could not have been predicted on September 10th, 2001. Also see: 'ISIS among the refugees' - Prelude to another European "terror attack"?