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Lithuanian police on September 16. handed over the equipment to the Belarusian State Forensic Committee, at a time when protesters were brutally treated by police, thousands of people were caught in the streets, beaten and tortured.
And the EU’s foreign service has allocated 850 thousand. for a neighborhood project between Latvia and Lithuania.
Security cooperation appears to have run counter to strong EU support for the democracy movement.
Opposition activists feared that drones could be used against them, for example, to identify and arrest individual protesters.
They will fly “not only in the capital, but also in the Minsk, Vitebsk and Grodno regions,” the Belarusian State Forensic Committee wrote on its website.
Each of these drones “has photographic and filming equipment that allows a high-quality image of the scene and significantly speeds up the crime investigation process,” the committee explained.
For its part, Lithuania stated that the drones were delivered in September according to “contractual procedures,” writes EUobserver.
However, Vilnius “suspended all payments to Belarus related to joint EU-Belarus projects as of August 9,” when the protests began.
The EU foreign service added that drones have not yet been used.
“According to information received from the Lithuanian services that implemented the program, the drones have been delivered, but have not yet been put into use,” Euobserver told the EU service. According to her, in no case could they be used against protesters.
“Obviously, due to the technical characteristics of these drones, it is not possible to use them to identify specific individuals, as they are intended for the investigation of large-scale crime and disaster sites,” the EU’s foreign service said.
According to the EU, under “contractual obligations”, the Belarusian authorities could only use them “for project purposes”. This includes “natural disasters, ecological disasters”.
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