The number of people who have tried to enter the country illegally from Belarus has increased at the Polish border, and 130 attempts to cross the border illegally were registered on Friday alone, the border guard announced on Saturday.
“The number of illegal border crossing attempts from Belarus to Poland has increased again. There were 130 such attempts yesterday,” the border guard said on Twitter. 40 aliens were detained and the remaining 90 attempts were thwarted.
Anna Mihalska, a spokeswoman for the border guard, told the PAP news agency that among the detainees were 14 Syrian citizens, five Somalis, but the identities of 20 people are still being clarified.
Belarus’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, said in May that it would no longer put up with migrants seeking to enter the European Union (EU) from Belarus in response to Western sanctions.
In the following months, illegal immigrants, mostly from Iraq, were sent en masse to Lithuania and Latvia with the direct support of the Belarusian authorities, but recently pressure has also come under pressure against Poland.
On Monday, Poland announced plans to build a barbed wire fence on the border with Belarus in the face of the flow of migrants across the EU’s external border deliberately facilitated by the Belarusian regime.
The Polish border guard said this week that almost 3,000 attempts to enter the country from Belarus have been prevented since the beginning of August. More than 2,000 attempts were thwarted and almost 900 people were detained.
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