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On Tuesday, the Interior Ministry held a press conference to comment on the police clashes with protesters and the situation and threats posed by the behavior and provocations of some people in Rūdninkai.
Two officers were injured
Ričardas Pocius, head of the public security service, says military territory was invaded on Monday and tires caught fire.
“Their objectives are twofold: to set fire to a camp that is being prepared for refugees or to divert the attention of our security forces. Our guard was attacked, two officers were injured. A special force, VST, was called in, which blocked the exit and put out the fire together with the firefighters and introduced order, ”says R. Pocius.
According to him, the duty officers could not enter or leave the landfill until 5 pm in the morning: “We left at 5:30 pm and the shifts have changed.”
When journalists asked R. Pocius how the officers had been injured, the VST commander said that preparations were made for the event and that it all started at 9:30 p.m.
“Anyway, the truck tires will not be burned with a lighter. It was not passed through the entry and exit point, but from the other side of the fence, where the fence is damaged and the tires are on fire. In response to our protection, there was physical contact, the invaders resisted and tear gas was used, ”he said.
Prime Minister Kęstutis Lančinskas’s adviser also said, saying that this part of the crowd returned to the territory much later and showing that the protest was planned: “With the aim of resisting the policemen,” added K. Lančiauskas.
According to R. Pocius, 8 people were arrested yesterday.
The Rūdninkai landfill, which provides for the establishment of a migrant camp, is a state military territory with an armed protection regime.
It is planned to accommodate up to 1.5 thousand. migrants.
The police seized people by force.
On Monday, police officers drove people off the road to the Rūdninkai landfill, where they blocked the road, protesting against the accommodation of illegal immigrants in this area of the Šalčininkai district.
Dozens of people tried to block the road to the landfill to prevent trucks from transporting the items needed to set up a migrant tent campus.
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.
Migrants may be detained
The police will be able to detain and detain migrants who have crossed the Belarusian-Lithuanian border; Such a decision was made on Monday by the head of the emergency situation, the Minister of the Interior, Agnė Bilotaitė.
According to the document, migrants who have committed acts that can be detained in accommodation may be detained for up to 48 hours.
Migrants who have crossed the border illegally may also be detained at the request of the State Border Guard Service, but for no more than 15 days. For the time being, according to the order of the minister, the police will be able to place “foreigners in places of accommodation detained by a judicial decision for illegally crossing the state border for more than 48 hours at the request of the State Border Guard Service “. .
The police are tasked with ensuring the protection, meals and other rights of foreigners detained during their detention.
Police Department spokesman Ramūnas Matonis informed BNS on Tuesday that no migrant has been detained so far.
110 migrants were detained
On Monday, border guards detained 110 migrants from Belarus who crossed the border illegally, according to preliminary data.
Of all the detained migrants, 93 presented themselves as Iraqi citizens or had Iraqi documents.
The aliens will be tested for COVID-19 and isolated until the results are available. The circumstances of the events are clarified, investigations are carried out. Asylum seekers have been notified by the Department of Migration, which processes such applications.
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.
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.
With a significant increase in the number of such cases, SBGS has strengthened border security with Belarus. In addition to various organizational measures, officials from other SBGS units were assigned to this section and additional technical resources were assigned.
In addition, the border guards were assisted by forces from other Lithuanian institutions, including the army, as well as officials from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency FRONTEX and Estonia.
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