“At least… they don’t take your passport, your money, they don’t take your clothes.” A Syrian refugee recounts his journey to Belarus, and why for a while, it was the safest option
by the Greek coastguard, or risk being stranded at the EU’s borders in the Balkans for months or even years if they can’t pay smugglers.
In early October, hundreds of people were seen gathering near the barbed wire fence at the Polish border in the so-called exclusion zone, including many women and children. “Since we're not allowed to go back to Minsk, we dug under the sensor fence,” Akram said, “but we got busted again.” “Two Belarusian soldiers took us during the daytime to a special area, by car, and they showed us how to cross the Polish fence,” Akram recounts. The car, he claims, was an army vehicle. Accounts given to NGOs and witnesses in Poland tell similar stories of alleged Belarusian border guards assisting migrants to find the best place to cross. Some recount violence and beatings.
The spokesperson also denied the use of violence, while the Polish border police did not reply to a request for comment on their own forces’ conduct. The latest images from the border show Polish riot police using water cannons and tear gas to disperse a group of people trying to remove the barbed wire fence at the border, after hundreds made their way to the Kuznica border crossing from a camp in the exclusion zone.
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