"They Arrive In Belarus by Direct Flights and Through Travel Agencies"

Germany revealed how dictator Lukashenka is trying to create a migration crisis in the EU.

“Due to the influx of migrants from Belarus, Lithuania wants to close the border and use the army. There are signs that the dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka is acting purposefully,” writes the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (translated by inopressa.ru).

"The length of the border with Belarus is almost 700 kilometers, and now the Lithuanian government wants to tighten it with barbed wire in a short time. The migration crisis in Lithuania is becoming more and more aggravated - even the army is planned to be used. But it "will not shoot at the border," Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte assured on Wednesday afternoon. Military patrols and barbed wire are "signals and means to deter the organizers of the flow of illegal migrants. This is not a wall of stone or iron," she said. However, according to reports, the border guards did fire warning shots at one group of migrants in a predicament," journalist Gerhard Gnauck reports.

“This year, mainly starting from June and as of Thursday morning, 1509 migrants illegally crossed the forest border areas from Belarus, which is almost twenty times more than in the entire last year,” the newspaper points out. ) About half of the migrants are from Iraq, the rest are from Syria and other countries in Asia and West Africa. Most of them are undocumented and are seeking asylum."

“According to Prime Minister Simonyte, the first evidence has been found that Belarus is luring migrants to itself.” There are travel agencies and direct flights, for example, between Minsk and Baghdad, there are agencies in Belarus and other countries that lure these so-called tourists to Minsk," she said. Other migrants, apparently, arrive by plane from Istanbul. European Council President Charles Michel also said after visiting the Belarusian border on Tuesday: "We suspect that all this is not happening without the participation of the regime in Belarus." He said he would raise the issue next week at a meeting with the head of the Iraqi government."

“Even before June, Belarusian border guards reported a number of detentions of Asians and Africans near the western border, most of whom, according to the rules, could enter Belarus only with a visa. (...) Now the situation on the western border of Belarus has changed: those who want to illegally go to the west, to the EU countries, Lithuania and Poland, are permitted to come or even helped to do so. They say that whole groups of people are received in an organized manner at the Minsk airport and taken to waiting buses," the article says.

“These migrants usually fall prey to the (Belarusian) regime and business, which is indifferent to people and their rights,” Simonyte said. “They are often misled and told tales like that it’s very easy to get into the EU. You just have to pay a large sum of money. From a human point of view, this is a tragedy."

“On Thursday, Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas told the Baltic news agency BNS that the army could be involved as early as Saturday, and work on the installation of barbed wire began. As the officers of the Lithuanian border service told FAZ, migrants arrive around the clock. According to them, so far, only about a third of the border with Belarus is protected by fences, equipped with cameras and other equipment. The necessary barbed wire will first need to be purchased, and all this will take time. "For now, we will use more people, not equipment," the border guards say.

"On Thursday, ten employees from Estonia sent here for support were to start work at the border. The EU border protection agency Frontex has so far sent six officers to Lithuania, and a few dozen more are on the way. Meanwhile, the Polish border service reported the arrest of 40 Afghans. near the Belarusian border on Tuesday. Last year, 114 illegal migrants were detained at the border with Belarus, this year already 186," writes Frankfurter Allgemeine.