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Polish police officers and migrants in the border region with Belarus
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Another migrant was found dead on the Polish border with Belarus.
The man's body was discovered on Wednesday in a field near the village of Klimowka, the Polish police said.
Accordingly, the dead is a 24-year-old Syrian.
This is evident from the documents that were found on the man.
According to the information, the crew of a police helicopter patrolling the border discovered the man's body.
The prosecutor is investigating.
The police assume that the Syrian migrant had previously been in Belarus because he had a Belarusian visa issued in mid-September, said a police spokesman for the newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza".
Several migrants were killed in the border region
According to the Polish news agency PAP, the body find marks the fifth known death among migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border.
Other sources speak of seven migrants dead in the region so far.
The circumstances remained largely unclear.
The information provided by the border guards and the police cannot be independently verified, as Poland has declared a state of emergency in the border region with Belarus.
Journalists and representatives of aid organizations are not allowed in.
In mid-September, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki informed that the bodies of three people had been discovered in the border area.
A few days later, the border guards reported that a man from Iraq had died of a heart attack after the border guards stopped a group of migrants.
The government in Warsaw has accused the Belarusian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, of bringing refugees from crisis regions to the EU's external border in an organized manner.
Lukashenko announced at the end of May that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU - in response to tightened Western sanctions.
Heiko Maas raises allegations against airlines
Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) meanwhile made airlines jointly responsible for the precarious situation of refugees who want to get to Europe via Belarus.
"Hundreds of desperate people arrive at the airport in Minsk every day," Maas told the "Bild" newspaper.
Lukashenko lured her with false promises in order to send her on a dangerous and illegal journey to the EU.
"The airlines that transport these people are helping those in power in Minsk." The companies would have to ask themselves whether they "want to be part of an unscrupulous international smuggling ring under Lukashenko's direction."
Brandenburg wants to distribute incoming migrants more quickly
In the past few weeks, more and more people from crisis countries such as Syria and Iraq had also arrived in Germany via the Belarus-Poland route.
Brandenburg now wants to distribute the refugees more quickly to other federal states.
The federal government wants to accelerate the forwarding with a new registration center in Brandenburg, announced Brandenburg's Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) in Eisenhüttenstadt during a visit to the initial reception facility.
From the central contact point, the immediate forwarding of refugees to all federal states should be organized in two weeks.
That takes great pressure from Brandenburg.
Only those people should be admitted to Brandenburg for whom the state is responsible according to the distribution key.
anr / dpa / AFP
