People pushed down the road to the Rūdninkai landfill by force, riot police quelled the riots

Dozens of policemen pushed people who were standing on the road for several hours, several clashes broke out, said a BNS correspondent at the scene.

According to her, a protester was taken away and left on the grass near the road after a confrontation with the police.

Soon after, people stood in various live lines in front of the gate to the landfill, where a truck carrying necessary equipment for the migrant tent campus was waiting to enter.

However, a few minutes later, the riot police dismantled these live lines and the truck entered the landfill.

The road was immediately fenced off with a “STOP” lane, guarded by riot police, and protesters are urged to pull cars off the sidewalk, warning of fines for standing on green grass.

It is planned to house about 1,5 thousand people in the territory of the Public Security Service landfill. migrants.

According to the Interior Ministry, heavy equipment had been transporting equipment from the tent camp to the landfill since morning, and assembled protesters had blocked the last trucks.

According to minister spokesman Agnė Bilotaitė, the obstruction of the construction of a migrant tent camp at the landfill is possibly related to anti-state activities.

Places are being sought for the accommodation of migrants in light of the 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.

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.