Who through the idyllic forests along the Polish border with Belarus grazes, is currently receiving strange short messages on the cell phone: “The Polish border is sealed,” it says there, “the Belarus authorities are telling you lies.”
SMS war on the eastern border of the EU!
Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko (67) attracts thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq via Minsk Airport towards the Polish border. Their Belarusian smugglers tell them: The jump across the border to Poland is child’s play. Germany just a few kilometers away …
But for most of them, the Polish border is over. To seal this, the Warsaw government even wants to build a wall soon: 400 kilometers long and 2.50 meters high, it should protect the EU’s eastern border from a further stream of Muslim refugees.
Planned costs: 330 million euros – at least!
Foto: Fabian Matzerath
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Foto: Fabian Matzerath
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Construction has not yet started. But 6000 border guards are already patrolling together with hundreds of police officers in a restricted zone that is completely closed to foreigners, journalists, lawyers and doctors. Even residents are only allowed to go to work, to the doctor or to church in the approximately 5 km wide strip.
Directly at the border, which is secured with triple NATO barbed wire, or shortly after it, the border troops pick up the refugees and push them back to Belarusian territory without further questions.
Anyone who gets further is crammed onto trucks by Polish border troops, starved and hypothermic, abandoned in the next border forest and sent back to Belarus.
Thanks to the state of emergency (officially in force since September 2nd) reporters or lawyers hardly disturb the scene. The army and border police can usually act unobserved – even if the cat-and-mouse game always results in deaths: children frozen to death, starved children, men and women drowned.
Only yesterday the body of a man was recovered in the border town of Kuscince.
“The whole world is upside down here,” says customs officer Mariusz Piotrowicz (47, has been collecting aid for refugees for months).
Foto: Fabian Matzerath
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Foto: Fabian Matzerath
Foto: Fabian Matzerath
Foto: Fabian Matzerath