Federal police launch veil search on the German

The federal police have increased the veil manhunt on the German-Polish border, as there is a sharp increase in unauthorized entries and people smuggling. In the past few months, the officers have encountered an increasing number of mainly Iraqi refugees at the 460-kilometer border. When they were interrogated, it emerged that they had reached Lithuania and Poland via Belarus and were now to be smuggled into Germany. This trend has a sensitive political background: the EU has been accusing the Belarusian government for months of deliberately bringing Iraqi refugees into their own country and then busing them to the Lithuanian border. With the state-organized sluice of migrants, so the allegation, dictator Alexander Lukashenko wanted to provoke the EU.The Belarusian ruler and close partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin is angry because he is largely isolated from the EU after the brutal crackdown on protests against him. In addition, his country is subject to severe economic sanctions because of the drastic repression of all forms of opposition.

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