Catching escaped migrants in Verebie: Officials admit they have helpers in foreign countries illegally



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Proof of this are also the events of the last weekend, when 32 people left the school in Verebieu (Alytus district), and up to 10 of them were arrested during the weekend with their guides.

Kristina Janulevičienė, representative of Alytus AVPK, confirmed to Delfi on Monday that these people were detained in vehicles driven by foreigners and that the registration of these vehicles was from foreign states.

A total of 32 of the 32 fugitives have been arrested.

Another 5 detained by border guards tonight in the vicinity of Kalvarija municipality have not yet been identified.

However, Virgilijus Pranskevičius, deputy director of the Alytus district municipal administration, says that so far only 5 fugitives have been returned to Verebie.

“I heard unofficially that more have been detained, but so far only five have been returned to us,” said a municipal spokesman.

According to the Alytus police representative, on Friday 6 people were detained on the territory of the Marijampolė municipality, when the officers stopped the minibus with Estonian state numbers for inspection.

Another 4 people were detained in cars with German and French state registration.

According to K. Janulevičienė, these vehicles were driven by people with permits in foreign countries, whose country of origin often coincides with the country of origin of the people who left the camps illegally.

There have been cases in which said expulsion of illegal immigrants has been carried out by their relatives from the aforementioned European Union countries, who have residence permits in those countries.

However, according to V. Pranskevičius, another trend is observed: the cars in which illegal immigrants were detained during the weekend went to and from Lithuania more than once during the mentioned weekend.

This is confirmed by the data on their drivers’ mobile phones.

Both the fugitives from the camp and the guides who transported them were arrested and locked up in the Alien Registration Center in Pabradė (Švenčionys district).

SBGS has initiated pre-trial investigations into migrant smuggling.

The rest of the illegal immigrants found were detained by the police and border guards individually or in small groups in the territories of the Alytus district, the municipalities of Marijampolė and Kalvarija. They returned to Verebay.

The remaining illegal immigrants who have left Verebay have yet to be found. Officials do not hide the fact that these people may have already reached other countries in Europe.

Over the weekend, Polish border guards returned 3 illegal immigrants who had left Lithuania. Upon inspection, it turned out that they had escaped from the Rūdninkai camp.

When and under what circumstances, so far, according to sources, it is clarified.

A representative from the Alytus District Municipality says one of the problems is that “it is not yet clear who we are responsible for.”

“When they escape, we look for who is in charge of counting them. And so far we don’t know who should do it: the municipality, the border guards, the representatives of the Public Security Service or the army, ”said V. Pranskevičius.

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