Warsaw and Vilnius
In the Medininkai camp, one of the five closed centers where migrants are housed in Lithuania, Donatien and Souleymane kill time as best they can in the containers that serve as their bedrooms.
Along with a volunteer art student, they paint messages of hope on the doors.
But for them, the gates of the camp always remain locked.
This is how the Lithuanian Parliament decided at the end of December, allowing the confinement of migrants for six more months.
They are more than 3000 in this situation now in Lithuania.
In the Baltic country, they are above all considered as the instruments of a hybrid war waged by the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, accused of thus taking revenge for the sanctions imposed by the European Union in June 2021.
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