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According to Lina Laurinaitytė-Grigienė, the arguments about the safety of the local population after accommodating the migrants in the landfill are unsubstantiated, because the territory is protected and is far from the closest settlements.
“These tents are installed in the sanitary landfill of the Public Security Service. This is a special-purpose object, from which the closest settlement is 3.5 kilometers away, ”said A. Bilotait’s representative at BNS.
“It just came to our attention then. We suspect anti-state activity,” he added.
In preparation to house the illegal immigrants at the Rūdninkai landfill, dozens of people gathered Monday night to protest access to the area.
People parked cars on both sides of the narrow road, preventing the movement of crews carrying the equipment needed to set up the migrant camp to the landfill, and sat in the driveway, a BNS correspondent at the scene said.
The protest is being monitored by several police crews. Previously, the campaign participants blocked the bridge over the Merkys river, the head of the Public Security Service Ričardas Pocius told BNS.
The interior minister said earlier Monday that 1,500 people would be housed at the Rūdninkai landfill, a tent city. immigrants who came to Lithuania illegally from Belarus.
According to his spokesman, heavy machinery had been hauling equipment from the tent to the landfill since morning, and assembled protesters were blocking the last trucks.
Places are being sought for the accommodation of migrants in light of the record levels of illegal migration in Lithuania. More than 2.7 thousand people have already tried to enter the country through Belarus this year. migrants, many of them from the Middle East and Africa.
Lithuania has declared an emergency situation due to the influx of illegal immigrants. The country’s officials take the position that the increase in migratory flows is an organized action of the Minsk regime against Lithuania.
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