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There was a stir in Rūdninkai on Monday. After the Ministry of the Interior (MIA) announced that it is planned to host up to 1,5 thousand people at the Rūdninkai landfill. illegal migrants, several dozen protesters stopped on their way to the landfill.
Police officers gathered as a group on Monday night and pushed people off the road. Representatives of the Interior Ministry announced that the protesters’ activities could be considered anti-state.
A press conference was held on Tuesday to discuss the situation, with the participation of the Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė, the adviser to the Prime Minister Kęstutis Lančinskas, the Deputy Commissioner General of Police Arūnas Paulauskas and the head of the Public Security Service Ričardas Pocius.
Bilotaitė: this is not a peaceful protest
A. Bilotaitė states that the number of migrants continues to increase, the number of illegal migrants trying to enter Lithuania is expected to soon rise to 3000 soon. Most of the migrants are staying at border barriers.
“It means that the border guards currently cannot fulfill their duties, take care of these people. Firebreaks are not the best place to seat migrants. What happened yesterday in Rūdninkai is an obvious malicious provocation, the question arises what the people stood for, ”A. Bilotaitė told reporters on Tuesday.
According to the minister, the events of Monday are by no means a peaceful protest, as stated.
“The people who participated in the selective campaign broke into the landfill area, attacked the agents, set the tires on fire, it is understood that this is a criminal act. Such actions are intolerable ”, comments A. Bilotaitė.
The Ministry of the Interior also proposed to the Government to establish a state of emergency in the border municipalities.
“The Interior Ministry is making a proposal to assess the situation and possibly declare a state of emergency,” the minister said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Police: We do not use excessive force
The portal tv3.lt recalls that on Monday several dozen people tried to block the road that leads to the Rūdninkai landfill so that the trucks that transported the elements necessary to install the campus of the migrant tents would not enter.
When the officers monitoring the protest finally demanded to leave the road, and some people refused to do so, the police, forming a group of about ten, pushed them away.
These actions were accompanied by the protesters’ slogans “What a shame!” And the screams of a man outraged by the “beaten people.”
Police say they did not use excessive force and that people were pushed aside by repeatedly refusing to follow officers’ orders to get out of the way.
Eight people were detained for failure to comply with legal instructions, and administrative infraction protocols were issued to them at the scene, police spokesman Ramūnas Matonis told BNS.
Shortly after the people were driven off the road, they stood in lines in front of the gates of the landfill, but were dismantled by riot police a few minutes later, a correspondent working at the site told BNS.
The protesters left on the side of the road gradually dispersed, but several people remained at the entrances to the landfill.
Mr. Matonis said that after some time after the repressed protest, the Public Security Service agents who had guarded the landfill had been forced to chase the people left at the landfill with tear gas, but did not know the details of the incident.
According to him, the police officers will remain on duty overnight at the entrances to the landfill.
Representative of the Ministry of the Interior: “Anti-state activities”
The government is looking for places to house migrants in the face of 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.
However, some attempts to host migrants in different parts of the country have met with active resistance.
Last week, in the Šalčininkai district, Dieveniškės, locals did not allow officials to start building fences around the old school dormitory, where the migrants would be housed. They claimed to be concerned for the safety of the children as there was a gym next to the bedroom.
People gathered at the Rūdninkai landfill also said they were concerned about safety and did not understand why Lithuania should accept the new arrivals.
“For some reason, our state wants to give them (migrants) asylum, even though they have violated our Constitution, even though they have come to Lithuania illegally,” Darius, a 28-year-old protester, told BNS.
“There is criminal responsibility here, and I don’t know why our lords accept them with such open arms,” he added.
A spokeswoman for the Interior Minister, Agnė Bilotaitė, claimed that the obstruction of the construction of a migrant tent camp at the Rūdninkai landfill is possibly related to “anti-state activities” and that security fears are unfounded.
“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, ”Lina Laurinaitytė-Grigienė told BNS.
Lithuanian Polish Election Campaigns – The leader of the Union of Christian Families Valdemaras Tomaševskis disassociated himself from the organized protest at the delfi.lt landfill and called it provocative.
It is planned to host up to 1,5 thousand people at the Rūdninkai landfill. migrants.
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.
It is not the first protest against migrants
This is not the first protest over the accommodation of illegal immigrants in the country. For a few days, a portrait of the population has been made in Dieveniškės.
It is true that there the Family March, which protests against vaccines, homosexuals and the authorities, has already taken over the situation of the locals. They not only protest against illegal entry, but also regulate what can and cannot be protested. He began to instruct the residents and activists of Dieveniškės themselves.
“Wait! You are not our helpers and we do not need you!” – this is how TV3 news journalists are greeted by the participants of the Family March who came to Dieveniškės to protest. The people protesting against homosexuals , vaccines, the government and journalists immediately began to regulate who, what could and what could not, covered the lenses of the cameras with flags.
One of the most active protesters living in Dieveniškės asks not to introduce his own order. The woman has been active in previous protests, but now her opinion of the protesters is not a slogan. Finally, the protesters take away the divine.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė declared that these assembled protesters are damaging the state: That intimidation, incitement, is really an action against the state. “
They are promised that they will not give up what is illegal in Dieveniškės: “We do not back down from our decisions and I really believe that some decisions will be made. I can’t comment on specific decisions and specific times right now. “
The number of migrants exceeded 2,000
110 migrants were detained by border guards last day. Of the 110 migrants detained on Monday, 93 presented themselves as Iraqi citizens or had Iraqi documents.
This year, 2,839 illegal immigrants tried to enter Lithuania from Belarus until midnight Monday through Tuesday. This figure is 35 times higher than in 2020. Last year, 81 of these foreigners were arrested on the other side of the border with Lithuania.
2019 46 illegal immigrants were caught by border guards in 2018; – 104, 2017 – 72. This July, 2,180 migrants were detained by border guards. There were 473 in June, 77 in May, 70 in April, and 8 in March.
Among those detained on the border with Belarus this year are mostly Iraqi nationals or foreigners who came forward: 1,724. There were also 191 Congolese, 129 Cameroonians, 83 Russians, 81 Iranians, 78 Guineans, 77 Afghans and Syrians and other citizens.
Since the beginning of the year, according to preliminary data, the highest number of migrants was detained in the municipality of Druskininkai: 652. 637 foreigners illegally arrived from Belarus were detained in the district of Šalčininkai, Varėna – 543, Ignalina – 432, Švenčionys – 291, Lazdijai – 167.
A large part of the detainees seek to enter Western European countries through Lithuania.
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