STA, 21 April 2022 - Slovenian police recorded 2,023 attempts at illegal crossing of the border in the first three months of the year, an increase of 77.5% over the same period last year. Afghanis account for over a third of all those intercepted, the latest police statistics show.
A total of 664 migrants were returned to foreign law enforcement, a 60% increase over the year before, with the vast majority returned to Croatia.
As the overall migrations figures rose, the number of requests for international protection surged, rising five-fold to 1,916, mostly on account of the uptick in refugees from Afghanistan.
The figures also include 300 Ukrainians, but this was before Slovenia activated the temporary protection mechanism under which all Ukrainian refugees are eligible for asylum and are processed in a fast-track procedure.