The riots that erupted at the Lithuanian Seimas building in Vilnius on Tuesday clearly took place “not without the help of other countries,” said President Gitan Nauseda.
According to him, Tuesday’s events at the parliament can be clearly divided into two parts: a day of officially announced protests, which was due to end at 5 pm, aimed at expressing civic opposition to the government’s plans to impose strict restrictions on the unvaccinated, while other events began in the evening. than anything in common with democracy and the desire to express an opinion, and their participants cared little for the issues raised in the first part.
“It was hoped that the main events would end at 5 pm, (..) but a second act followed, with very different people and other intentions, and aggression was quite different, (..) and it was clear that it is done not without the help of other countries, “Nauseda said in an interview with” Delfi TV “.
Although Darjus Jaunišķis, the head of the State Security Department, has indicated that the department does not currently have information on anti-state activities or evidence of Tuesday’s events related to foreign forces, the President expressed the opinion that the day “too many coincidences” to be considered random.
“We live in a hybrid war, hybrid attacks, and these attacks follow each other. We in Lithuania have already agreed that the increase in the number of migrants is also a kind of hybrid attack, organized primarily by Belarus. This attack is not over, it continues,” he said. .
“There were really too many coincidences that day – both the Belarusian television and the interviews given to them that evening, and the riots started, and the next day there was a reaction from the Russian authorities (..). to think that they are coincidences, but I believe that (..) they are part of a certain systemic hybrid attack, and the clients are, in my opinion, quite clear, but the misfortune is that even some of our politicians take part without considering all the consequences for national security , “said Nauseda.
It has already been reported that riots broke out on Tuesday night near the Seimas building in Vilnius, where several thousand people gathered during the day to protest against the government’s plans to impose strict restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 or tested. However, in an extraordinary session on Tuesday, the Seimas addressed completely different issues related to the crisis of illegal migration.
In the evening, at the end of the Seimas sitting and the officially allowed protest period, several hundred people blocked the entire exits and gates of the parliament building to the inner courtyard, where deputies park their cars, dispersed both politicians and journalists, and some of them were quite aggressive. The riots escalated into clashes, with police firing tear gas and using force against some insurgents, while some protesters threw water bottles and stones at police and used flares. The last messers were dispersed around two at night.
According to the Vilnius District Prosecutor’s Office, 19 people, mostly law enforcement officers, have been identified as victims of the riots at the BNS news agency, and 26 people have been identified as suspects, nine of whom have been arrested and the rest have been given easier security measures.
Meanwhile, at the Rūdninkai landfill, where several hundred illegal migrants recently detained at the Belarusian border were housed, riots broke out late on Tuesday evening, which managed to contain the police and the Public Security Service, also attracting a border guard helicopter. About 20 migrants escaped from the landfill area that evening and were later detained.
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