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According to service representative Giedrius Mišutis, the Druskininkai firebreak, where most people crossing the border illegally have been detained in recent days, was emptied on Saturday night.
“Last night, the Druskininkai firewall was emptied, foreigners were taken to the registration center, Ignalina district and Alytus district, and they were assigned municipal premises. More than 100 migrants have been dispersed as well as Lazdijai has been provided with premises, ”G. Mišutis told BNS on Sunday.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Giedrius Mišutis
However, according to him, the Druskininkai firebreak was full again on Sunday morning, so it is being agreed with the municipalities where to remove the migrants currently present.
“Since (firewall – BNS) was re-filled, there are more than 100 again, it is coordinated to take them further to other municipalities. They shouldn’t be there for a longer period of time, because there are no conditions there, the firewalls are not adapted for that, ”said the SBGS representative.
According to him, the reception of migrants is being discussed with several border municipalities and the migrants should be deported on Sunday. Unaccompanied minors are among the migrants crossing the border; they can be accommodated at the refugee reception center in Rukla.
According to G.Mišutis, after the declaration of the emergency situation, around a thousand sets were provided to the municipalities in the places of accommodation: beds, mats, sleeping bags, bedding and pillows.
“We received a thousand sets from the state reserve, which were assigned to municipalities in accommodation places. Those sets include folding beds, mats, sleeping bags, bedding, and pillows. Those kits travel to the municipalities together with the migrants, ”he said.
The SBGS announces that officers detained 160 illegal immigrants from Belarus last day, most of them trying to cross the border in Druskininkai municipality.
This year, 1,098 illegal immigrants from Belarus tried to enter Lithuania, almost 12.5 times more than in all of 2020.
Due to the sharp increase in the flow of migrants from Belarus, the government has declared a state of emergency.
On Friday, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said she believed the influx of illegal immigrants from Belarus was revenge for the European Union’s common position on the Minsk regime’s crackdown on civil society, repression and the hijacking of a plane. civil in May.
At that time, LRT’s “Panorama” program announced on Saturday night that illegal migration from Belarus to neighboring countries, Poland and Latvia, goes almost unnoticed.
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