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A Syrian father went out to look for his daughter on the Belarus-Poland border: "Nail her, they are monsters"
Abu Elias, who lives in Sweden, arrived in a Polish border town hoping to meet his daughter, a 25-year-old doctor who was trapped in the clutches of the struggle between the Lukashenko regime and Europe.
"They were beaten with an electric shocker and told to go to Poland"
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Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 18:56
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The families are trying to help.
Children on the Belarus-Poland border (Photo: Reuters)
Concerned relatives of migrants stranded in a forest on the Polish-Belarusian border are arriving in Polish border towns in hopes of helping their loved ones escape the escalating violence and frost.
One of them is a Syrian citizen, living in Sweden, desperate to find his daughter, the girl Naaman, a 25-year-old doctor who is making her way from Syria to Europe.
The father, who identified himself as Abu Elias, said that for the past 25 days she had suffered from hunger, thirst and injuries caused to her by Belarusian border guards.
"She can no longer walk. My daughter's nails were uprooted. The Belarusians arrived at night, beat them with an electric shocker and told them to go to Poland. Poland only accepted them to bring them back," Abu Elias said.
The EU accuses Minsk of creating an immigrant crisis on its eastern border as part of a "hybrid attack" against the bloc - by issuing Belarusian visas across the Middle East, flying immigrants and illegally pushing them across the border.
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"I'm a dead man, I have no feeling."
Abu Elias (Photo: Reuters)
Belarus denies creating the crisis, but says it can not resolve it until Europe removes the sanctions it imposed on Alexander Lukashenko's regime over opposition to the opposition after last year's elections.
Abu Elias himself went on a grueling journey to Europe in 2014, when he said he fell into the "trap of smugglers." He fears the same thing will happen to his daughter. He said she was barely in touch with him after losing her cell phone. He said she told him that the Belarusian authorities had asked the immigrants to pay about a hundred dollars for charging 20% of the batteries of their phones. Belarus denies violence against immigrants.
Abu Elias said that the Polish police pushed his daughter and other immigrants back to Belarus again and again, sometimes using dogs, despite the violence perpetrated by the Belarusian side. "She's here, 40 miles from here, they're playing with us. Poland does not admit them, and the other side does not allow them to return. They are not human beings, they are monsters, monsters, monsters, "he said.
The Polish Border Police did not respond to inquiries.
Clashes at the border, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
The Syrian father said his daughter had recently managed to contact him via a borrowed phone, and told him she was planning to come to Germany soon.
Now, he hopes to get there and wait for her, but has no idea what's going to happen.
"I'm dead, I have no feeling. I'm a dead person," he told Reuters.
"They play against each other, back and forth, and who's the fuel? These people, these poor people."
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