While the crisis at the Polish border dragged on, and where nearly 4,000 migrants were still stranded in the cold Belarusian side, Prime Minister Jean Castex accused Belarus of "inhumanly and shamelessly instrumentalizing migratory flows".
“The regime of President Alexander Lukashenko instrumentalizes in an inhuman and shameless manner, migratory flows in an attempt to destabilize and disunite the European Union.
It is intolerable and unacceptable ”, declared the Prime Minister during questions to the government in the National Assembly.
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The West indeed reproach Minsk for having orchestrated since the summer these migratory movements from the Middle East to the eastern borders of Europe, to avenge the sanctions imposed by the EU after its crackdown by the regime on the opposition. Belarusian.
Before the deputies, the head of French diplomacy, Jean-Yves Le Drian also accused Belarus of carrying out “large-scale human trafficking”.
