'Like animals in a pen': Hungarian officers 'inhumanely' toss food into crowds of hungry migrants

Migrants display unprecedented amount of control

A shocking video featuring Hungarian police throwing food into a crowd of roughly 150 starving migrants living in improvised enclosures has gone viral.

MUNTINLUPA CITY, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Footage of Hungarian police wearing hygiene masks throwing sandwiches and bags of bread to hungry refugees has gone viral. Arms are outstretched, people are crying out for attention and authorities are tossing individually wrapped meals into the crowd rather than simply handing them out.

Hungary has since been under scrutiny by the UN's refugee agency for the dire conditions in the region. Starving migrants located in the area are trying to survive while being treated "like animals in a pen" by Hungarian police officers. The video was filmed by the wife of a volunteer situated in the area during the incident.
The video was taken at the Roszke camp on Wednesday around 8pm. Several migrants desperately waved and shouted to catch the officers' attention while those in the front handed food to those behind them. 
The situation was compared to a "military prison" in Guatanamo Bay by Alexander Spritzendorfer and his wife Michaela, who filmed the video.

Alexander Spritzendorfer said, "It was like animals being fed in a pen, like Guantanamo in Europe."
Mrs. Spritzendorfer added, "It was inhumane and it really speaks for these people that they didn't fight over the food despite being clearly very hungry."
The disturbing video came after the announcement of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the police officers will implement tougher rules against the immigrants who will try to illegally enter their country. 
Orban said, "Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force." However, the Hungarian police have already confirmed that they are launching an "emergency inquiry" into the incident.
Meanwhile, a government spokesman said that the video only showed the detention centre where refugees under the "optimal case" stay for a few hours. However, he also admitted they could stay up to two days in a procedure the European Union sanctioned.
He added, "I can see policemen who have been performing their duties for months, trying to take care of 23,000 migrants arriving continuously day by day while there is no co-operation whatsoever on their part ... I can see they are trying to maintain order among those who are unable to line up for food."

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