PULA, Jan 31 (Hina) - Last year 724 persons were nabbed in 275 attempts to illegally cross the state border with Slovenia in western Croatia's Istria County, a county police official said on Friday.
PULA, Jan 31 (Hina) - Last year 724 persons were nabbed in 275
attempts to illegally cross the state border with Slovenia in
western Croatia's Istria County, a county police official said on
Friday. #L#
This was down from 1,280 such arrests made in 2001, said Nevija
Raste, chief of the county police department for the state border
and illegal migrations.
Of the 724 arrests made last year, Slovenia's border police
returned 398 to Croatia -- down from 950 in 2001 -- under an
agreement the two countries signed on returning persons who
illegally cross onto the other's soil.
The most numerous among those arrested were citizens of Yugoslavia
-- 306 -- followed by 183 of Macedonia, 53 of Moldova, and six of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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