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Maas: Airlines sluice in for Lukashenko migrants

2021-10-14T16:57:13.003Z


Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) accuses airlines of transporting illegal refugees to the EU via Belarus. “Hundreds of desperate people arrive at the Minsk airport every day. Lukashenko lures them with false promises, only to send them on a dangerous and illegal journey to the European Union, ”Maas told the“ Bild ”on Thursday.


Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) accuses airlines of transporting illegal refugees to the EU via Belarus.

“Hundreds of desperate people arrive at the Minsk airport every day.

Lukashenko lures them with false promises, only to send them on a dangerous and illegal journey to the European Union, ”Maas told the“ Bild ”on Thursday.

Berlin - The airlines that carried these people made themselves the helpers of the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko.

“These companies have to ask themselves whether they want to be part of an unscrupulous international smuggling ring under the leadership of Lukashenko - and what consequences this could have for them.” Maas announced that he would like to discuss this question with his colleagues at EU foreign ministers' meetings on Monday.

In May, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced in response to tightened sanctions by the European Union that it would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to Poland and the Baltic States.

The EU accuses Lukashenko of bringing people from crisis regions to the EU's external border in an organized manner.

Poland, Latvia and Lithuania have tightened border security.

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Attack on journalists: testimony expected in the trial

The trial of the attack on two journalists more than three years ago is being continued in front of the Mühlhausen Regional Court today (10:00 a.m.).

According to the secondary prosecution, witnesses have been summoned, from whom the representatives of the two journalists hope to gain further information about who brought the baseball bat to the dispute.

Attack on journalists: testimony expected in the trial

Dead migrants: Poland accuses Minsk of “organized action”

There is a state of emergency on the Polish side of the border with Belarus, journalists cannot report from there.

After the death of several migrants, Poland blames the government of Belarus.

Dead migrants: Poland accuses Minsk of “organized action”

The Afghan local workers left behind by the Germans

Many Afghan employees of the Bundeswehr and other authorities were unable to leave the country.

Your commitments for Germany continue to apply.

But nobody knows how the local staff should get there.

The Afghan local workers left behind by the Germans

According to the Federal Police, more than 4,300 people have illegally entered Germany on the new escape route via Belarus and Poland since August.

They came primarily from Iraq as well as from Syria, Yemen and Iran.

Brandenburg, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are particularly affected.

dpa

Source: merkur

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