About 100 refugees staged riots in the center for illegal aliens, which is located near the border with Germany. Migrants tried to escape from the institution, but the security forces managed to stabilize the situation
Illegal migrants started a riot in a secure center for foreigners in Polish Venjin (Lubusz Voivodeship, located in western Poland and bordering Germany). This is reported by wPolityce.pl.
According to the portal, several hundred migrants tried to break the fences in order to escape from the territory of the center. The publication notes that this object appeared in the summer of this year on the site of the former military training center. The facility can accept several hundred illegal immigrants at the same time. According to the portal, foreigners who were detained for illegal stay in the republic are sent there.
Lubuska newspaper reported that, according to preliminary data, the reason for the riot was the preparation of the leadership of the center to send back to Iraq a group of several dozen people who “did not meet the conditions for obtaining the right of residence”.
According to the RMF radio station, 604 foreigners are currently on the territory of the center. All of them are men, 358 of them are citizens of Iraq. The rest are mostly Afghans.
The police reported that the migrants took out equipment and furniture from the premises of the center, after which they tried to set them on fire. Then the illegal immigrants attempted to break the fences. According to the press secretary of the regional branch of the Polish border guard, Joanna Konechniak, about 100 migrants staged riots, who chanted various slogans, in particular, that they intend to get to Germany. The center is well protected and surrounded by several fences. None of them has been crossed,” she added.
The press secretary of the Polish Border Guard, Anna Michalska, said that double and in some places triple fences were installed on the territory of the center. Therefore, as she assured, none of the illegal immigrants managed to escape from the territory of the center.
Later, the police of the Lubusz Voivodeship reported that the riot had been stopped. “After an attempt to break through the fence of the protected center in Venjin, where there are more than 600 migrants, the situation has stabilized. None of these people managed to escape,” the message says.
The migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border has been going on for several months: refugees are trying to reach the largest and economically developed EU countries through Poland. The situation in the border areas worsened on November 8, when a large convoy of migrants arrived at the border of Belarus with Poland. On the same day, Warsaw closed the border crossing «Smithy—«Bruzgi», near which migrants gathered.
On November 16, migrants threw stones at Polish security forces. After that, the Polish authorities issued an ultimatum to Minsk and threatened to restrict rail traffic if the situation did not improve. On November 19, the border committee of Belarus notified Poland that there were no more migrants on the border of the two countries, but Warsaw still restricted rail traffic.
Western countries have blamed Minsk and Moscow for the migration crisis. Belarus claims that Poland forcibly expels migrants to its territory and artificially escalates the situation with refugees. The Russian authorities deny all accusations of involvement in this crisis.
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