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“There are several elements that are involved in the protests related to the processes taking place in the southeast of Lithuania. I mean smuggling of things. The fewer officials in the southeast of Lithuania, the better for them,” the parliamentarian told the radio. LRT on Wednesday.
He also said that various political forces were involved in the protests and that the actions were organized. However, when speaking of organized actions, the parliamentarian highlighted the tendency not to use “names out loud.”
In the Šalčininkai district, on the territory of the Rūdninkai landfill, preparing to host illegal immigrants, several dozen people gathered on Monday night to protest at the entrances to the territory and blocked access to the landfill. When people repeatedly refused to follow the officers’ instructions, they were forced out of the way.
The people who subsequently invaded the area set the tires on fire, seriously injured two officers and again blocked the entrance to the area. Tear gas was used to suffocate the invaders.
Protests are also held regularly to express opposition to the accommodation of illegal immigrants in Dieveniškės.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė says she considers this protest action “provocation and anti-state activity”.
For its part, the Department of Homeland Security says that protests against the placement of illegal immigrants in municipalities do not record the activities of anti-state groups, but stresses that “using a broader and more specific vocabulary of politicians, it could be accepted that aggressive opposition to legitimize law enforcement “
More than 2.8 thousand people have already tried to enter Lithuania this year. illegal immigrants, Lithuania has declared an emergency situation due to its influx. The country’s officials take the position that the increase in migratory flows is an organized action of the Minsk regime against Lithuania.
