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On Thursday morning, the border guards at the Druskininkai Firebreak detained 3 people who had just crossed the border without documents and presented themselves as Kemerūnas citizens.
On the evening of the same day, Adutiškis Firewall agents detained 15 Iraqi citizens in possession of documents in the Švenčionys district. An hour before midnight, the Adutiškis border guards detained 2 more migrants with documents from Iraqi citizens in the Švenčionys district.
Friday around 1 pm A group of up to 42 foreigners was captured by the Kapčiamiestis firebreak officers in the Lazdijai district. Thirty of them came forward as Iraqi citizens, six after Iran and Syria.
Border guards of the Tribonium firebreak on Friday around 2 pm In the Šalčininkai district, 4 migrants with Afghan nationals who violated the border of Belarus were detained.
Soon, in the municipality of Druskininkai, near the border with Belarus, the border guards of the complex detained two more groups of migrants: 32 and 5 people. An hour later, 4 illegal immigrants were caught by Druskininkai border guards.
At around the same time, Aleksandras Barauskas’s firewall agents detained 2 foreigners who had entered Belarus illegally in the Varėna district.
Soon, a report was received from the Tverečius firebreak: 6 illegal immigrants detained in the Ignalina district.
The Druskininkai border guards still had no time to breathe, around 6 o’clock. in the morning they detained three more groups of migrants: 3, 7 and 14 foreigners.
Around 7 pm In the morning, another 11 rapists from the Belarusian border were arrested by agents of the A. Barauskas firewall in the Varėna district.
In the latter groups, the identities of detained foreigners are established.
Most of the 150 illegal immigrants have already applied for asylum in Lithuania. All foreigners will be screened for COVID-19 and isolated until the results are available. The circumstances of the events are clarified, investigations are carried out. The Migration Department, which processes these applications, and the Lithuanian Red Cross have been informed about the asylum seekers.
A total of 822 illegal immigrants from Belarus tried to enter Lithuania this year. That number is ten times higher than in 2020. Last year, 81 of those foreigners were detained at the border with Lithuania. 2019 46 illegal immigrants were caught by border guards in 2018; – 104, 2017 – 72.
Among those detained on the border with Belarus this year are mostly Iraqi citizens or foreigners who have come forward: 481. Citizens of Iran, 51 of Syria, 46 of Belarus, 28 of Russia, 13 of Guinea, 12 of Turkey, 10 from Sri Lanka and other countries. These citizenship statistics may change over the years of the survey and, more precisely, the nationality of the detainees during the last day.
With the recent sharp increase in the number of such cases, SBGS has strengthened border security with Belarus. In addition to various organizational measures, officials from other SBGS units were assigned to this section and additional technical resources were assigned. In addition, border guards have been assisted by forces from the Public Security Service, the Union of Rifles and other institutions, and officials from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, FRONTEX, are starting work on the border with Belarus.
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