Warsaw: European Union officials have accused Belarus of government-sponsored human “smuggling” by bringing desperate migrants to the Polish border along the EU’s border. Is. Many of these people are now living in makeshift camps in the bitter cold.
A European Union leader also said on Wednesday that the EU was considering funding the construction of a wall or other barrier on its eastern border for the first time. Polish officials estimate that some 3,000-4,000 migrants have gathered along its border with Belarus, hundreds of whom are in a makeshift camp not far from the Kuznica crossing. Warsaw has declared a state of emergency by increasing security along the border.
Polish authorities have tweeted videos of migrants, some of whom, using shovels and wire cutters, tried to break through a fence at the border to enter Poland. Western countries have accused Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko of encouraging immigrants from the Middle East to come to his country and sending them to EU members Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Belarus has denied the allegations but said it would no longer prevent migrants and others from entering the European Union. Poland’s Prime Minister Matewez Morawiecki said: “From a distance, these incidents on the Polish-Belarus border may look like a migrant crisis, but it is not a migrant crisis, it is a political crisis with the specific purpose of destabilizing the situation in the European Union.” Is.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Stefan Seibert said in Berlin that Minsk “engages in state-run smuggling … at the cost of 100 percent of those who are brought into the country with false promises.”
