About 750 migrants and refugees arrived in the Una-Sana Canton (USC) in the first 15 days of March alone, confirmed the Cantonal Police Administration today.

-Entering the canton near Bosanska Krupa, we registered about 500 migrants in this month alone, while about 250 people arrived in the area near Ključ and headed to Bihać or Velika Kladuša. We stop them at these checkpoints, but we are aware that we cannot fully close the entire area, and that they will find their way to their temporary target destinations- said the USC police spokesman Ale Šiljdedić.

In four temporary reception camps in Bihać, Cazin and Velika Kladuša, all accommodation capacities are currently filled, considering that about 2,500 people are taken care of in them.

According to the USC Ministry of the Interior, almost the same number of migrants and refugees live in city streets, public areas and abandoned buildings as they do in the camps.

-It is obvious that we are facing a new migrant wave, which we expected with the arrival of warmer weather. We have to take certain actions, because a large number of people are staying in abandoned buildings and on the streets, without any supervision. We hope that an appropriate solution will be found for these people outside our canton, given that we cannot adequately take care of them and that it is really impossible and inadmissible to open new reception centers in this part of Bosnia and Herzegovina- said the USC Prime Minister Mustafa Ružnić.

He also underlined the problem of insufficient cooperation and lack of interest of the owners of the facilities inhabited by a large number of migrants and refugees, with special emphasis on the lack of protection and neglect of the unfinished building of the Retirement Home, i.e., the former Krajinametal facility in Bihać.