Poland has detained 13 activists for trying to destroy a fence erected alongside the border with Belarus in an effort to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country.
Among those detained on Sunday night are 12 Polish citizens and one Dutch citizen, the border guard said.
A crisis has erupted on the Polish-Lithuanian-Latvian border with Belarus in recent months as large numbers of immigrants smuggled across the border by the regime of Belarusian authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko try to avenge the Western sanctions imposed on Minsk. and brutal repression of opposition protests.
Activist attempts to destroy the border fence were described as “completely unacceptable” by Polish Interior Minister Marjush Kaminski, who said the offenders would receive full punishment for the crime.
“We will respond to such actions with strong determination,” the minister said on Twitter on Sunday.
Minsk basically sends citizens of Iraq, as well as Afghanistan and other countries, across the border in the framework of the Lukashenko regime’s extended hybrid war to create instability in the European Union, explains the western countries.
In response to these developments, Poland has already erected a barbed wire fence along the border and has expressed its determination to build a 2.5-meter-high fence along the entire border with Belarus.
–
