Despite criticism from NGOs and the defender of rights, Polish Center Droit Prime Minister Donald Tusk has not faltered. Wednesday, May 21, the diet, the lower room of the Parliament, voted at an overwhelming majority the extension of the suspension of the right of asylum on the Belarusian border. Established by a decree of the Council of Ministers, in March, the measure, of a duration of sixty days, can be renewed indefinitely with the downstream of the deputies.
Donald Tusk said on Wednesday before parliamentarians wanting to protect Poland a “Certain form of aggression” exercised by “Smokes and gangsters”working in concert with the “Russia and Belarus”.
Since 2021, Minsk and Moscow have orchestrate a migration crisis at the eastern doors of Poland, which persists despite a drop in intensity. In addition to exerting diplomatic pressures, Warsaw built a closure 5.5 meters high and 186 kilometers long in 2022, constantly reinforced by cameras, motion detectors and barbed wire, as well as by the presence of the army seconding the border guards in their patrols. But this device is not completely hermetic. The Corps of Polish border guards, which noted nearly 30,000 attempts to cross the Belarusian border for the whole of 2024, counted 300 in the day of May 20 alone.
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Source: Lemonde