Minsk actively promotes the transfer of illegal migrants to the countries of the European Union (EU), as evidenced by the stamps of Belarusian border guards in their passports. The “Belarusian transit” scheme of refugees in the EU opened in an interview with DW representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany Steve Alter.
According to him, before arriving in Belarus, citizens of Middle Eastern countries receive a 30-day visa through a kind of travel agency, while paying a deposit in the amount of four to twelve thousand dollars. Then, explained the German law enforcement, migrants arrive in Minsk, where they depend on the “package of services” or to a hotel or in the waiting room.
After a sufficient number of people got, the border guards are carrying refugees to the western border and sometimes even help them get into Poland, cutting the fence. Already on the Polish side, refugees with geolocation in the smartphone determine the location of a person who will take them further to the west, to Germany, added alter.
The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany stressed that the Polish-German border illegals overcome both on vans and taxi, and by public transport. Only after that, he concluded, “Travel agents” receive payment from the deposit account.
Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the “transportation” of migrants across the border of Belarus with the countries of the European Union, which is actually engaged in Minsk, is a hybrid threat to the European Community. On October 22, EU leaders agreed on a package of new sanctions against the Government of Belarus due to the situation with migrants.