Migrants in a Lithuanian camp demanded to be released to Germany
In a Lithuanian temporary detention camp in the town of Rukla, migrants staged a protest demanding their release. Presumably, they wanted to be released so that they could leave for Germany. Reported by Delfi.
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Several dozen illegal migrants protested at the fence in the temporary detention camp. They shouted slogans, displayed posters and even broke part of the iron fence. Refugees shouted “Freedom!” While holding the flags of Lithuania and the European Union. Law enforcement officers did not allow journalists to approach the refugees and find out their demands in more detail.
According to the head of the Lithuanian border guard service Rustamas Lyubayevas, the organizers of the action have now been identified, and the demonstration did not escalate into riots or riots.
< p> The Lithuanian border service saw a connection between this incident and the protests of migrants at the Belarusian-Polish border. “We do not exclude the fact that the action in Rukla is part of the coordinated actions of illegal migrants on the border with Poland and Lithuania,” Lyubaevas said.
On November 8, a new exacerbation of the migration crisis occurred on the border of Belarus and Poland. More than a thousand illegal migrants in an organized column went to the Bruzgi checkpoint, where they tried to cross the border and chanted “German, german!” The EU countries accuse Minsk of organizing this action, while in Belarus they believe that migrants coordinate their actions on their own.