Warsaw, Poland: Poland Poland posted a video on early Tuesday which showed a group of migrants who camped overnight only on the side of the East Poland border in Belarus.
Riot policy and rolls of wire razors against migrants and police said the situation was quiet overnight.
It follows the day of heavy tension at the border, where a large group of migrants – hundreds if not thousands from the Middle East and driven by Belarus – trying to drive their paths illegally to Poland.
In videos posted on Twitter, tents and campfires can be seen, in temperatures approaching freezing, because Poland’s police played an announcement that warned migrants who crossed the Polish border was only permitted at the official border intersection.
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But on early Tuesday, the nearest intersection point, in Kuznica, in the northeast of the country, was closed.
The situation marks escalation in migration pressure for months against Lithuania and Poland, and at a lower level of Latvia, three European Union countries on the East Border block with Belarus.
The EU said Belarus was building pressure, intending to disrupt the block as a retaliation for Western sanctions.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, accompanied by Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, went to the border on Tuesday morning to meet with border guards and other security officials.
Morawiecki praised them, also on behalf of the EU, for “our effective border defense,” which is part of the EU eastern border.
“We don’t know what else to the Lukashenko regime will come – this is a reality,” Morawiecki said.
Migrants derived mostly from Iraq and Syria, although some came from Africa, seized hoping for new migration routes to enter Europe.
Most tried to just pass through Poland to reach Germany or other countries in Western Europe.
Poland has received strong support and solidarity signals from EU and UE and United States member countries when facing their border crisis.
The Minister of Home Affairs came out of Germany, Horst Seehofer, said on Tuesday that all EU countries “had to stand together, because (Belarusian President Alexander) Lukashenko used the fate of people with the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin to disrupt the West.” He called for the European Commission to support Poland in securing the border.
“Poland has reacted correctly so far,” Seehofer told Bild Germany on the strengthening of the Polish border.
“We cannot criticize them because they secure the EU external border in an acceptable way.
Poland fulfills services that are very important for all of Europe.” Deputy Seehofer, Stephan Mayer, told Bild that “Germany can send police very quickly to support Poland if Poland wants it.” So far the Polish-ruling nationalists have rejected assistance from Frontex, EU border agent.
Many migrants fly to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, on a tourist visa, and from there traveling by taxi to the border with Poland.
The EU seeks to press the airline not to facilitate illegal migration.
Although direct flights from Iraq to Minsk were suspended in August, migrants had flown to Belarus through commercial flights and rented from Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and even Russia, according to the EU Internal Migration Report recently seen by the Associated Press.
On social media, smugglers have advertised transportation from Belarus to Germany by car.
The driver of the smuggling of people on the Polish-German border mainly originated from non-EU countries, according to reports, although there were also UE citizens involved.
Many migrants end up in Germany.
But some continued their journey to Finland with ferries through Sweden, a report said.