Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, taking a hard stance after the reports of sexual assaults in Cologne and Hamburg, has made it clear he will fight against allowing Muslim refugees into his country. He stated, “We don’t want something like what happened in Germany taking place in Slovakia,” adding that Slovakia must “prevent [its] women from being molested in public places.”
According to the local German newspaper “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” and the Sunday edition of Die Welt, Cologne police believe some of the men who assaulted women in New Year’s Eve were Muslim refugees from Syria.
Fico said bluntly that Bratislava would ” never make a voluntary decision that would lead to the formation of a unified Muslim community in Slovakia … Multi-culturalism is a fiction. Once you let migrants in, you can face such problems.”
Slovakia, which is two-thirds Catholic, only has 5.4 million people, yet the European Commission wants to force Slovakia to accept 802 migrants. Fico and his government have sued the Commission in order to stop their plans.
“Multi-culturalism is a fiction. Once you let migrants in, you can face such problems.”
Robert Fico
Fico is not alone; Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has already filed a lawsuit against the EU to stop the immigration of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Budapest has also launched a nationwide media campaign against the quota system. Orban has stated, “As long as this government is breathing, there won’t be any quota, or any (rejected asylum applicants) taken back. We will decide who we want to let in who we want to live with.”
Last summer, Hungary started building a razor-wire barrier along its border with Serbia and Croatia to funnel migrants through specific checkpoints; migrants started flowing toward Austria as a result.