Many media sites around the world have been quoting Viktor Orban’s statement that “This is an organized invasion”.
Readers of this site may notice that we downplayed that quote as the places and events it had been attributed to, he simply did not state that.
Thanks to CrossWare, the video was found and he did indeed say exactly that. But without context its highly subject to spin and contempt. In this clip. you can see not just the statement, but the evidence for the statement and the circumstances of its being said.
Watch to the end. The pay off is huge.
Town of Röszke, in Hungary, at the border crossing with Serbia
In January 2020 a mob of migrants rushed the border there:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/01/migrants-rush-the-border-at-roszke/
In the Great Migration Crisis of 2015, a huge mob of migrants attacked the border crossing there (“The Battle of Röszke”):
https://gatesofvienna.net/2015/09/mob-violence-at-the-hungarian-border/
https://gatesofvienna.net/2016/08/hungary-migrant-trouble-at-the-serbian-border/
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Press conference at Röszke, February 13 2020
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
Slovakian Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL-0skf0aIM
Notes from the translator:
This is the original press conference at the border, with official translators translating immediately. Orbán speaks in short sentences to help the translator.
The first part of the video is standard diplomatic chit-chat. First Orbán thanks the Slovakian PM for sending Slovakian police officers to defend the Hungarian border. Then PM Pellegrini thanks the Hungarians for defending the southern border of the EU, thereby defending Slovakia.
