Hungarian mayor drives away migrants with threatening video

September 18, 2015 19:39

With razor wires and militarized borders, tear gas and water cannons, Hungary drove away weary, desperate migrants from its border with Serbia this week.

As they left, the mayor of the border town slammed the door on their backs with a threatening online video. His message to migrants: If all that's not enough to keep you away, I've got heavies of my own.

In the two-minute action piece in Hungarian with English subtitles, Laszlo Toroczkai reveals his own vigilantes backing up the nation's troops.

"On the territory of Asotthalom they (troops) are supported by militant field guards and civil guards," he says to action packed music. On horseback, by motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle and helicopter, his men zip along the razor wire fence.

He then stands broad-legged staring through dark glasses with muscly men lined up behind him and tells migrants to go through Croatia and Slovenia if they want to get to Germany.

"Do not trust the lying human traffickers," he says. "Hungary is a bad choice. Asotthalom is the worst."

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