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Protecting cars with signs such as “Europe is not your home” or “STOP illegal immigration”, the protesters demonstrated on the road from Druskininkai to Latežeris.
This place is the closest to the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, where a protest action is allowed without additional coordination with the institutions, according to the organizers.
The protesters carried tricolor and historical flags of Lithuania, as well as flags with inscriptions directed against illegal immigration.
Several of them went to border guards working at Raigard and other border crossings to express their gratitude for the protected state border.
Raimondas Grinevičius, the organizer of the rally, told BNS that the protest was also organized due to the “inability of the government” to resolve the migration crisis.
“Our government has added such things that now people who work on the border, local residents and municipal budgets have to work,” said R. Grinevičius.
“The government is a week late in resolving this crisis,” he added.
The main requirements of this campaign for the Government are: immediately liberate the occupied Lithuanian district schools and deport those who have illegally occupied them to their countries of origin.
About 150 people attended the demonstration, according to the protest organizer.
With the recent significant increase in illegal migration from Belarus, the government has declared a state of emergency.
The new arrivals are housed in premises provided by border municipalities, as well as in tents, and the government is looking for ways to effectively expel migrants whose asylum claims are unfounded.
A total of 1,634 migrants were detained at the border with Belarus this year, significantly more than last year. Many of them are from the Middle East and Africa.
Lithuanian officials say the surge in migration flows is a hybrid attack organized by the Belarusian regime.
Minsk claims that European Union (EU) sanctions no longer deter migrants on Belarusian territory.
