Jackal: the concertina is not a simple barbed wire, it leaves people with torn wounds

“It is obvious that having a physical barrier on the border with Belarus is too late, because Lukashenko has been an inadequate dictator for years, not two or three. “The way we deal with the border with Russia is much better organized,” he said.

D. Šakalienė pointed out in the show that the concert is not just barbed wire.

“It consists of sharp tin hooks reminiscent of knives, which leave torn wounds and when people crawl at night (we have seen that video material, there are children, the elderly and women too), they can touch their cutting structures with their face, neck and hands. ”This, he said, would further increase the burden on health professionals.

“It would be good if they were raised to a high visibility position as soon as possible so that the people on the other side of the fence could ask our border guards for help,” he said.

NSGK President Laurynas Kasčiūnas is currently focusing on the most sensitive places, where the roads preferred by illegal immigrants are located.

“In order not to advertise those roads, it is not necessary to provide specific information about what is being installed and where. According to the plan, we are moving forward and I hope that in 2-3 months there will at least be a concert and we will start to implement a real physical barrier, ”L. Kasčiūnas said on the show.

According to him, there could be warning signs nearby, and it would be possible to announce every 20 minutes through the loudspeakers that the border of the European Union is approaching and warns not to cross it in several languages.

However, according to D. Šakalienė, when solving national security challenges, it is important not to forget human rights standards. Otherwise, Mr. Šakalienė is convinced, Lithuania’s reputation may be affected.

“It would be good not to confuse who is the perpetrator or the regime and who is the hostage of the victim or situation. Applying for asylum is not a crime. It can be presented in writing, orally and even in signs. International conventions make it clear that if a person reports that they are in danger, they must at least initiate the examination procedure of the asylum application and assess whether the request is justified. “It certainly would not be possible to physically push people out of the border, especially in this situation, because we are not talking about a hundred thousand migrations across our border,” said the Social Democrat.

Due to the crisis of illegal immigrants, an extraordinary session of the Seimas is held on Tuesday. According to L. Kasčiūnas, important amendments will be considered to help deter illegal immigrants.

“Firstly, when illegal immigrants are detained and housed in Lithuania, so there is no need for a court decision to restrict their freedom of movement in the places where they are housed. In this way, I think we will solve two issues. First, let us make it clear that we will not be a transit route to Western Europe. The message for our partners is very important here and the partners value it very much. The second important aspect is that we send messages not to choose this path, not to choose Lithuania, “he said. the president of NSGK.

“When we accelerate the procedures, and the bills provide for it, because refugee applications are now being abused, we will be able to think clearly about how to return migrants who have not been granted refugee status. On the one hand, it is possible to look for opportunities for voluntary return, which are the resources of international organizations, when they buy a ticket and give a certain amount of money to settle when they return, and there are national instruments, ”he said, explained in Delfi Day.