INVASION: The untold story of the town almost WIPED OUT by the migrant crisis
EXACTLY a year after the migrant crisis gripped his hometown, the Mayor of Mórahalom is in good spirits – Hungary is about to go to the polls – and he predicts the results will send a strong message to the heart of Brussels.
By ZOIE O’BRIEN IN HUNGARY
Express.co.uk
Sun, Oct 2, 2016
Zoltán Nógrádi has been mayor of the small town in Hungary’s Csongrád County for 22 years.
He is the leader of a town on the edge, not just a 30km border with non-EU Serbia, but the edge of the Schengen zone, the last border of the EU bloc.
The town’s geographical position as the entrance to Europe makes it a gateway for tourism, a point on many travellers’ journeys – but for the last two years – it has also made it the centre of a crisis which has stunned the rest of Europe.
Sitting in his office in the centre of a sleepy town, Mr Nógrádi admits he never imagined anything quite like the migrant crisis exploding on his doorstep.
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