Merkel: Lukashenko conducts state trafficking in human beings – politics abroad

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Clear words from Chancellor Angela Merkel (67, CDU) about the smuggling machinations of the Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko (67).

At the beginning of the EU summit, she threatened Lukashenko with economic sanctions. The goal: to make it clear that “we have to say that we condemn this type of human trafficking on the part of the state”.

In plain language: state trafficking in human beings by the Lukashenko regime. Merkel announced that the topic should be an important topic at the EU summit in Brussels.

Photo: Danilo Dittrich / dpa

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More than 3,100 people have illegally crossed the German-Polish border since October 1stPhoto: Danilo Dittrich / dpa

“We see this as a hybrid attack by Belarus”, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (63) also sharply criticizes Lukashenko’s approach.

The flow of refugees on the German-Polish border has increased significantly since August – currently around 160 people are trying to cross the border every day! In Brandenburg, the federal state with the longest border with Poland, people who had entered the country without permission were apprehended in October 1828 alone (as of October 18).

The primary origin of the people: Iraq, Iran, Syria and Yemen.

Belarus dictator Lukashenko is behind the fact that these people are trying to get to Germany via Poland.

▶ ︎ The EU accuses Lukashenko of bringing refugees from crisis regions to the EU’s external border in an organized manner. Lukashenko announced at the end of May that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU – in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country.

Since then, reports of attempted illegal border crossings at the EU’s external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border have increased.

Von der Leyen: “No human life should be jeopardized for political reasons. And so I am sure that the Council will give a very strong and very cohesive response to this behavior in Belarus, which must be stopped. “

According to the latest estimates by the governments in Warsaw and Berlin, 14,000 to 15,000 people are currently waiting to be carted off towards the EU borders by the Lukashenko regime. Your destination: Germany.

The Polish government is now issuing clear warnings to migrants on its website. “Crossing the Polish border will not help you get to Germany,” it says in English and Arabic. “Go back to Minsk. Go back home. ”

Die Grenze zwischen Weißrussland und Polen wurde mit einem Zaun aus Stacheldraht gesichertPhoto: KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS

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The border between Belarus and Poland was secured with a barbed wire fencePhoto: KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS

AND: Since August, Poland has been securing its 400-kilometer-long border with Belarus with a 2.5-meter-high barbed wire.

Germany also wants to take targeted action against Lukashenko’s human trafficking: On Wednesday, Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (72, CSU) discussed the possibilities of strengthening controls at the border in the cabinet.

According to this, federal police officers should go on patrol in Poland together with their Polish colleagues and discover migrants at an early stage. Warsaw is to lead the command.

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