PRAGUE (Sputnik) – More than 96 percent of residents of the town Gabcikovo in southwestern Slovakia voted against the deployment of the undocumented migrants in their town on the local referendum, local media reported Sunday.
“The local referendum was attended by 2,603 residents of Slovak town Gabchikovo… 2,502 residents, 96.67 percent of voters, rejected the establishment of the refugee camp in the village,” Slovak online edition Teraz said.
Earlier in July, Slovakia's Interior Minister Robert Kalinak said that Slovakia is ready to accept some refugees from Austria’s overcrowded refugee camps and to deploy them in Slovakia near the town of Gabcikovo.
Europe is experiencing a major migrant crisis as thousands of people flee conflict-torn regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia. According to UN data, 137,000 refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea for Europe in the first six months of 2015.
