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Some monday night 15 minutes contacted Z. Palevičius, said he would soon go to Rūdninkai, where the situation is very hot – officials used force to repel people protesting against the accommodation of migrants who illegally crossed the state border through Belarus.
There were several clashes.
15 minutes Photographer Žygimantas Gedvila, still at the landfill, said that Beata Petkevič, an elected MP in the Šalčininkai-Vilnius single-member constituency, arrived here.
Said the police left around 10pm
VIDEO: Residents blocked the road near the Rūdninkai landfill, hampering the importation of equipment for the tent city construction.
VIDEO: Filmed how the officers fight against the people who blocked the road to the Rūdninkai landfill
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B. Petkevič told the assembled people that the locals, most of whom are Polish nationals, also have the support of Lithuanians. Many of them are said to meet at Dieveniškės and, as a member of the Seimas assured, they will also meet here.
“It just came to our knowledge then. We said that in Dieveniškės we would run under the wheels, if necessary, really,” B. Petkevič, a representative of the Polish Electoral Action Union of Lithuanian Christian Families, told the people gathered in the Rūdninkai landfill.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15 minute photo / Beata Petkevič
People hailed her for running under the wheels, saying there was a settlement near the place where the migrants would be staying.
“It looks like a forest here, but of course it is very close,” replied a woman.
Some protesters were also not peaceful with journalists. 15 minutes the photographer said several people threw it, either pine cones or small pebbles.
The mayor promises to be on the side of the people
Z. Palevičius said there were no signs that the situation could get worse in this way. Such a protest is said to have taken place spontaneously. The mayor said he learned of the situation at the landfill from the media.
“I don’t know what to say. (…) From what I can see on Facebook, there is a lot of tension and I need to say something to go home and then we will usually meet and discuss,” he said.
When asked how he evaluated such a protest, a politician representing the Polish Lithuanian Election Campaign, the Christian Family Union, explained that it was difficult for him to evaluate it.
“People have their opinions and that’s why they tried to express their opinions. It is good here? It’s hard for me to make up my mind now. If there were another type of communication, informing both the municipality and the municipality and the people in advance, it could be otherwise, there would not be a situation like the current one. When you don’t report, but you do and you have all kinds of plans: this is plan A, this is plan B, this is C, this is D, therefore, this is what happens ”, commented Z. Palevičius .
Salcininkai District. municipality photo / Zdislavas Palevičius
It was announced that around 1,5 thousand people would be staying at the Rūdninkai landfill. immigrants who have arrived in Lithuania illegally.
The mayor of the Šalčininkai district assured that he, as head of the municipality, does not know exactly how many of them are planned to be accommodated.
He allegedly accesses conflicting information from the media.
He claimed that the expected number of migrants staying in another city in the district, Dieveniškės, was unacceptable.
“It is an unacceptable option in Dieveniškės and everything is clear here. But here also people do not want, because there are also 1.5 km from the village. Although in other objects – and the forest, and there is a safer place, of course, and more convenient. But does it have to be only in our district in one place and another? That’s what I doubt.
Lithuania is probably large and other municipalities can be found. But it is always necessary to negotiate here. It must be said that there will be such a camp in the Rūdninkai forest. And not that the government: both the local and the district find out only through the media ”, repeated Z. Palevičius.
But does it have to be only in our district in one place and another? I doubt it, probably Lithuania is big and other municipalities can be found.
The Šalčininkai district mayor said he represents the interests of the people and will stand by their side. On Tuesday, he promised to call Interior Minister Agne Bilotaitė in the morning.
And I will ask you to accept. We need to meet and talk so that there are no such situations in the future. We need to communicate better and if we have any plans, we must inform the district authorities, ”said Z. Palevičius on the way to Rūdninkai.
L. Kasčiūnas: provocation avoided
L. Kasčiūnas, Chairman of the Seimas National Security and Defense Committee, says that “the failed attempt to block the entrance to the Public Security Service VST landfill in Rūdininkai can hardly be considered a legitimate protest, as it is an isolated and remote place. base”.
“It is the object of the special regime of the internal affairs system, not a city building. The landfill is now being installed in a temporary tent camp, which will not be guarded by anyone, but by prisoners escorted by specially trained officers. which will quell the riots in the prisons, so it will be extremely safe there. 15 minutes L. Kasčiūnas said.
Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min photo / Laurynas Kasčiūnas
“The incident is more reminiscent of an act of provocation that supposedly created a kind of chaos by organizing temporary accommodation for the migrants and only mimicking the discontent of the local population. This was not possible due to professional police actions, ”said the politician.
The Interior Minister announced on Monday that it is planned to house some 1,500 people on the landfill’s territory. migrants.
Shortly after the report, the road to the landfill was blocked, which was cleared by law enforcement.
In recent months, many immigrants from neighboring Belarus have arrived in Lithuania. About half of them are Iraqis.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Vytautas Bakas
V. Bak, a member of the same committee, says the authorities should be more active in explaining the situation and the decisions to concerned people.
“People who meet immigrants in the neighborhood feel insecure and anxious. For example, at the meeting in Alytus we talked for a couple of hours, I explained to people that this is an attack on Lithuania, it requires concentration to repel it. people understand, but they get offended when politicians make decisions unilaterally, they do not speak or explain ”. 15 minutes said V. Bak.
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