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Azeris, who do not want to flee the camp, are a rare exception.
The Iraqi Azerbaijani currently lives in the Pabradė Alien Registration Center. A man from Baghdad does not complain about the living conditions.
The migrant describes the camp staff and officials as very friendly. The tent where Azer lives is neat. 11 more guys live here with him. Friends are scattered about housework and tidying up the store every day. In his spare time, the Iraqi reads books at camp, watches movies, interacts with friends, and sometimes plays basketball.
Azer and his friends never planned to flee the camp. It is true that from time to time you wake up in the morning and hear other campers trying to do it at night. Some are lucky and others are caught.
Azeris and their friends hope that he will be granted refugee status, so that Iraqis will be able to get to know Lithuania better. Also, the boys dream of living here.
However, there are few such camps in the Lithuanian immigrant camps. Most migrants do not give up hope of reaching Western Europe.
Run away due to unsatisfied conditions
15 minutes The journalists also contacted another Iraqi, Muhammad. This guy on Facebook for money offers immigrants safe routes from Belarus to Europe.
He claimed that a large number of migrants in Lithuanian camps think about escaping. Here they are unhappy with the living conditions in the camps and, above all, with the ban on leaving the camp area.
Most immigrants believe that it is better to reach the countries of Western Europe or Scandinavia. In these states, they expect more support and better living conditions.
Germany remains the most popular dream country for immigrants.
Different protections in the camps.
The camps in Lithuania are guarded by the State Border Guard (SBGS) and the Public Security Service (VST). They are assisted by the police, the Lithuanian Rifle Union, the military police, volunteer soldiers and officials from the Department of Prisons.
Currently, there is an Alien Registration Center in Pabradė and a Refugee Center in Rukla in Lithuania, which are intended for the accommodation of migrants. Some of the camp’s residents have applied for asylum in Lithuania. These migrants can leave the centers for a day.
Since the end of June, the migrants have also lived in temporary accommodation. The largest camp is located on the territory of the Rūdninkai landfill, where 700 migrant men live.
In some municipalities, centers for temporary migrants have been created. For example, at Verebiejai, Alytus, Vydeniai, Kapčiamiestis, Kazitiškis and Linkmenys airfields. Foreigners who crossed the border illegally are also housed in some border barriers.
Prepare for leaks beforehand
Migrants who cannot leave the field and want to escape must first find a taxi. It is most commonly found in migrant groups on social media, Telegram, or Whasapp correspondence apps. An escape from the camp area is planned according to the driver.
Other campers help migrants who often want to flee. They come up with a way to get the attention of the officers. For example, it causes fights, riots, etc. This distracts the officers and fugitives cross the fence elsewhere or go through it.
Leaks usually take place during the dark hours of the day.
After going “to the store”, they no longer return to the camps.
Migrants who have applied for asylum in Lithuania can leave the migrant centers for one day. After legally leaving the accommodation, they often do not return.
People who have legally left the camps often use intercity buses and trains to go to major cities in Lithuania.
Ahmed from Yemen and two other friends were detained by Lithuanian border guards in late March. The boys applied for asylum in Lithuania, allowing them to leave the territory of the Pabradė camp for two hours. One day, after leaving the camp in this way, they did not return to it: they went to Vilnius by train. In the capital, the boys found a driver and paid 1,500 euros for a trip for three to Hungary.
In Lithuania, 138 did not return asylum seekers to asylum centers. They are not included in the refugee statistics because they left the center legally. According to Rokas Pukinskas, these situations cannot be compared to the escapes from the Rūdninkai or Verebie camps. Those who escaped in these places had no right to leave the camp.
Currently, 100 people from Poland have been returned from abroad to Lithuania. Most, including four-fifths, did not flee the centers but abused asylum procedures.
Escape prices
According to the Iraqis interviewed, one of the easiest parts of the escape is escaping from the camp’s territory. And the most difficult thing is to get to a safe place to meet the taxi driver.
The price of an illegal taxi also depends on where the driver will be waiting. The closer you get to the camp, the more comfortable it will be for the fugitive, but the driver is at greater risk of being caught. In this case, the price goes up.
A risky approach for a taxi driver near the camp area costs migrants between 2,000 and 3,000 euros.
The prices of taxis in the main Lithuanian cities are falling several times, that is, the price drops to 1000 euros per person.
Irakietis Ameeras 15 minutes told reporters that the Lithuanian driver for 30 thousand. helped escape from his friend and 6 other migrants. This amount included tips on how to escape the camp, which route to take when going to a taxi, and taxi services to Germany. According to Ameer, these 7 immigrants successfully achieved their goal: Germany.
Support runners in groups
When 32 migrants fled the old Verebieu school in Alytus district, this message quickly spread to migrant groups on social media. The members of the groups were delighted with their bravery and wished them a safe trip to Western Europe.
Muhammad currently lives in Iraq. The boy returned to his homeland after a few years of living in Austria for several months. In a few weeks, he plans to leave Iraq again and reach Western Europe via Belarus.
The guy heard that this, the biggest escape from the Verebie camp so far, was organized by a resident of the camp, a Kurdish person. The guy calls this man dangerous.
As far as he knows, in his homeland he belonged to the criminal world. This Kurd, while living in the countryside himself, organized an escape for those people who had money. The price of the service, according to Mohammed, included: the right time to escape, a route to safety and a taxi to Germany. 15 minutes According to the source’s knowledge, more than 20 people ran with him.
Several other migrants later fled the group that night. With no money, they did it on their own. Many of the fugitives were arrested in Lithuania. Or go back to Lithuania from Poland a little later.
Politicians are guaranteed safety, but locals also have to catch refugees.
Migrants often fail to escape far from the camp because they are seen by locals. For example, on August 8. A Mercedes Benz car with Finnish numbers came to pick up the migrant who had escaped from the camp. While driving, he collided with a car owned by a local who lived in Rūdninkai.
The fugitive migrant was stopped by the locals and called the police, and the driver left the scene. After a few hours of police arrest near Vilnius, the driver was found to be an Iraqi citizen.
Rūdninkai residents say such situations are not alien to them. Local migrants meet when passing through or near the village. You also often see cars with non-Lithuanian numbers near Rūdninkai.
Rūdninkai residents 15 minutes he told reporters that he felt unsafe about the current situation in the field.
How many migrants fled the camps? Services did not provide a number
The SBGS is responsible for the registration and supervision of foreigners who have entered the country’s territory illegally or who have applied for asylum.
15 minutes applied to SBGS on August 16. with a request for data on fugitive migrants. The instruction was then given to contact the Public Security Service. That same day, journalists contacted her, who directed her to the Ministry of the Interior. In a few days the ministry 15 minutes provided the editorial office with other information, but did not provide the number of escaped migrants.
According to the Interior Ministry, all the migrants who had fled from the accommodation established during the emergency were found. Except for 8, who, having escaped from Camp Verebay, are still wanted.
August 2415 minutes He repeatedly appealed to the SBGS regarding the number of migrants who had fled the camps. This time, Rokas Pukinskas, Head of the Communication Department, promised that we will receive a reply within a week.
We will add text as we receive more information.
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