GROUP OF 50 MIGRANTS BROKE THROUGH BELARUS BORDER, POLISH POLICE SAY

Sun 14 November 2021:

According to the Podlaska voivodship police, about 50 people stormed their way over to the Polish side of the border with Belarus a day earlier, with 22 of them detained.

Poland has increased border security measures as large groups of migrants assemble on the Belarusian-Polish border in the goal of crossing into European Union territory.

“Yesterday, before 5 pm (16:00 GMT), around 50 people broke into Poland near Starzyn. Twenty-one police officers, as well as soldiers and Border Guard officers, joined the search for migrants who crossed the border illegally. Police officers detained 22 Iraqi citizens,” the police tweeted.

Thousands of migrants have traveled to Belarus in the aim of entering the European Union, only to find themselves detained on the border in freezing circumstances.

The police also claimed to have been attacked on Saturday evening during a separate attempt to cross the border, with one officer’s helmet damaged after a stone was hurled at him.

On Saturday, the Polish Border Guard reported 223 attempts to illegally enter the border.

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