Hungary stepped up its anti-migrant rhetoric on Wednesday with a new media offensive against refugees, ahead of a vote in October on troubled EU plans to relocate asylum-seekers among member states.
Run under the slogan “Did you know?”, the right-wing government unveiled a series of ads on its website blaming recent terrorist attacks in Europe on the refugee crisis, which has been rattling the bloc since 2015.
“The Paris attacks were committed by migrants,” reads one slogan in reference to last November’s coordinated assaults that left 130 people dead in the French capital.
Among the perpetrators were two men who had entered Europe among the flow of Syrians and Iraqis arriving on Greek shores last summer.
Other messages warn that “violence against women has increased exponentially since the start of the migrant wave” and that “in Libya alone, a million migrants wait to come to Europe”.
The ads will be published in the print press, broadcast on TV and radio, and plastered on billboards all over Hungary in the coming weeks, the government said.
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