Poland’s authorities reported that for the period from August 9 to 11, more than 550 attempts to illegally cross the border by Belarus.
as the Polish public television channel TVP World reports, the Border Service of Poland stated that all incidents occurred in the Land of Voivodeship in the East.
in public networks published in social networks The footage shows how several people are trying to climb a fence of 5 meters high and were stopped by patrol. It is noted that the violators behaved aggressively and repeatedly threw stones and branches into the border guards.
According to the authorities, in recent months the number of attempts of illegal crossing the border is growing, and the violators use increasingly dangerous methods, including the abandonment of border guards and military bottles with incendiary mixture.
Poland, Latvia and Lithuania and Lithuania Human rights organizations criticize, accusing the “pushing of migrants” back abroad.
However, the authorities of these countries claim that the migration flow is part of a “hybrid attack” organized with the support of the Belarusian authorities.
Despite the general decrease in the number of illegal migrants in the EU, last year crossing the border of Poland, Latvia and Latvia and Latvia, Latvia and Latvia. Lithuania from the territory of Belarus, grew by 192%.