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A. Šumin says that this protest should be treated as an attempt by the organizers to keep the public’s attention so that the ideas they spread are not forgotten.
After the “Great March for the Defense of the Family” in May, followed by appearing before the Seimas in one form or another, so that the whole movement, the whole protest is not exhausted, certain additional actions are needed.
The protest that has taken place against refugees, against migrants, against our authorities must be seen as the next step. The organizers of this force seek to stay in the limelight and seek to be talked about. They seek to mobilize their followers and attract new ones. We want to keep the whole movement going, ”he says.
Obstructed officers?
During the protest, several participants visited border guards working at Raigard and other border crossings to express their gratitude for the protected state border.
According to A. Šumin, during this visit the organizers of the protest wanted to show both officials and the public that they are not against customs officials, border guards, police officers or ordinary people who carry out their work, but against the ruling and some members. of the Seimas.
“This gesture should be interpreted as a kind of signal to show that his enemies are not ordinary officials,” added the communications expert.
On Monday morning, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė emphasized on the LRT radio program “Ryto garsai” that protesting in a democratic country is possible and not a problem.
The problem, he says, is when the protest distracts officials from the main job, which officials currently have a lot of.
“Both the police officers and the SBGS really have something to do to protect the border and prevent illegal migration. And if, at the same time, officials need to make sure there are no provocations, maybe things that are punished according to the codes. relevant, it seems to me that if someone cares about the work of officials, they should not be charged more than they have done, “he said. hee
He organized a protest against the refugees.
On Sunday, the organizers of the “Great March for the Defense of the Family” organized a protest action against immigrants who flow illegally from Belarus to Lithuania.
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 institutions, organizers say.
The protesters carried tricolor and historical flags of Lithuania, as well as flags with inscriptions directed against illegal immigration.
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.
About 150 people attended the rally, according to the protest organizer.
Ramūnas Matonis, Head of the Communication Department of the Police Department, confirmed to the tv3.lt news portal that no violations were recorded during the rally.
Isn’t it the last protest on the border?
According to the website of the Family Movement, the protests “do not have an end time, it is possible that the first” guards “who arrived will be replaced by later volunteers; this issue will be decided on the spot depending on the situation.” .
It is written that the main requirements of this campaign for the Government are: “immediately liberate the occupied Lithuanian district schools and deport those who illegally occupied them to their countries of origin. The objective of the campaign is to force the government to work in the performance of its functions and to unite the whole Lithuanian ”.
The news portal tv3.lt recalls that another rally of the March for the Defense of the Family will be organized on September 10.
“When the members of the Seimas have a celebration, we will also have it, the request has already been sent. We will organize a demonstration from the Cathedral Square to the Mažvydas Library area,” announced R. Grinevičius.
The number of detained migrants is decreasing
The number of illegal immigrants detained on the border with Belarus is gradually decreasing, says Antanas Montvydas, deputy commander of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS).
“Since the beginning of the year we have detained more than 1,660 illegal immigrants, and today the result is already 16 people. During the weekend, July 9-11, we detained 155 illegal immigrants, compared to 426 last weekend, ”A. Montvydas told Lithuanian Radio in an interview on Monday.
He noted that the number of illegal migrants apprehended has fallen since last weekend and the weekend before, despite the detention of 473 migrants in June and nearly a thousand in the two weeks of July. “We can say that the number is gradually decreasing,” Montvydas said.
As relations with Belarus deteriorated, a record number of illegal immigrants began to travel to Lithuania through this country. Minsk claims that EU sanctions no longer detain immigrants in Belarus.
From Sunday morning to Monday morning, according to preliminary data, 60 migrants who illegally crossed the border between Belarus and Lithuania were detained, the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) reported.
In total, the Lithuanian authorities detained 1,634 migrants at the border with Belarus this year, 20 times more than last year. Many of them are from African countries and the Middle East.
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