SBGS: Belarusian officials pushed immigrants into Lithuania and crossed the state border themselves

“Our neighbors to the east were the first to announce how a group of immigrants was trying to enter Lithuania, but, as always, they kept shrewd silence and did not show that they were Belarusian officials wearing riot gear pushing immigrants from Belarus into Lithuanian territory. “. and then themselves. illegally cross the Lithuanian state border, ”announced SBGS on Facebook.

The service also notes that after repeated warnings from SBGS officials, the violators withdrew to the Belarusian side.

The SBGS also released a video of the incident. The incident was recorded on Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier Tuesday, SBGS also reported on another attempt by Belarusian services to spread liars about the work of our border guards: that migrants were brutally beaten on the Lithuanian side. Lithuanian border guards also provided proof that this was a lie..

Lithuania continues to strengthen its forces on the border

“We cannot tolerate such a bold provocation, when 12 Belarusian officials crossed the border of the Republic of Lithuania today. We responded immediately to this provocation and made the decision to further increase the border protection capacity,” says the Interior Minister, Agnė Bilotaitė, in a press release.

The Interior Ministry notes that in the Šalčininkai district, in the Gintaras Žagunis firebreak section, representatives of the Belarusian forces structures with shields and riot control teams forcibly pushed a group of 35 migrants into the territory of the Republic of Lithuania and entered the territory of our state. All the above-mentioned illegal actions by Belarusian officials were recorded on video by officials of the State Border Guard Service.

Photo by Vidmantas Balkūnas / 15 min photo / Barbed wire barrier on the border with Belarus

Information on the violation of the state border will be used in the pre-trial investigation conducted by Lithuania, in addition, the representative of the Belarusian Borders Committee was also reported.

This is not the first similar incident on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border in recent days.

Minister A.Bilotaitė also forced the responsible statutory services to strengthen surveillance at the border.