"Migrants think they do not need to comply with European laws because of Germany’s misguided policy," Laszlo Toroczkai, mayor of Asotthalom, said.
"That’s why they do whatever they want, go wherever they want, break out of the Roszke registration camp and walk along the motorway toward Austria and Germany," he underscored.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel rolled out far-reaching measures on Monday, disbursing $3.3 billion to German regions who accepted refugees, speeding up asylum application procedures, creating 150,000 housing spaces for asylum seekers, 10,000 positions for volunteers and 3,000 additional police.
Germany opened its borders to some 20,000 people earlier this week. The country pledged to take in a total of 800,000 by the end of this year.
The mayor of the town that lies 15 miles west of Roszke, where hundreds of migrants broke out of a temporary camp earlier this week, argued that Berlin sends a "very bad message" by accepting "every refugee from Syria."
He added that Austria and Germany use every means available to help migrants reach their soil, despite the fact that these migrants should legally be registered in Hungary.
"Despite this, Germany and Austria send buses and cars to Hungary and almost ‘smuggle’ them. They give a green light to migrants and migrants think that they can continue to come here freely and go wherever they want," the official said.
Toroczkai stressed that this prompting by other EU countries has led to an escalation of the situation, since migrants "are becoming more aggressive toward policemen."
