Police officers stabbed by migrant traffickers on the Timisoara – Arad highway. They fired 13 shots

TIMISOARA. A rampage in a shooting range on the Timisoara – Arad highway, last night, ended with gunfire and the wounding of two border police officers.

The agents, who were hidden in the vegetation near the parking lot, not far from Ortisoara, noticed 8 migrants and 3 guides trying to get into a truck.

The policemen came out of hiding, summoned them to stop and tried to detain them. At that moment, two of the traffickers armed with knives rushed to the law enforcement officers. They managed to stab one of the policemen in the shoulder, and inflicted 4 blows on the other, in the calf, in the thigh, in the buttock area and at the level of a knee. The policemen fired 13 shots in a vertical plane to stop the attack, but the aggressors ran away.

The police managed to capture the 8 migrants and one of the 3 guides. The attackers are still being sought.

The injured agents arrived at the hospital for treatment and are out of any danger. However, it is for the first time that border policemen are injured in such a mission.

“At around 03:40, border policemen from the Territorial Service of the Timis Border Police carried out a surveillance action and caught red-handed some guides and a group of migrants, in the parking area on the A1 highway, Timisoara – Arad, on direction Km 501.

While the migrants were about to be boarded in a truck parked in the parking lot, one of the three people suspected of driving took out a sharp object with which he injured two of the border policemen participating in the action.

The single emergency number 112 was immediately called and a medical crew was requested to transport the two border police officers to the “Pius Brinzeu” County Emergency Clinical Hospital in Timisoara, in order to provide them with specialized medical care. currently their condition is stable, being out of any danger.

People involved in the activity of illegal migration tried to run away, but the border police acted to detain them. The border police officers used the weapons provided, in compliance with the legal provisions, and 13 shots were fired. Eight migrants and a guide were detained, and currently the search for the other two people suspected of being guides continues.

In order to find them, a search device was organized, using drone-type equipment and a special vehicle with thermal imaging. At the same time, the support of the Police Inspectorate of Timis County was requested“, transmit the representatives of the Timisoara Border Police.