Since January, More Than 10 000 People Entered Germany Illegally Via "Belarusian Route"

• 23.11.2021, 8:15

The data are published by the Federal Police in Potsdam.

Since the beginning of the year, about 10 thousand people were detected in Germany, who had illegally entered the country from Belarus through Poland. These figures are provided by the Federal Police in Potsdam.

For the first seven months of the year 2021, 26 migrants, who illegally entered the country by the "Belarusian route", were detected in Germany; 474 - in August, 1903 - in September, 5285 - in October and over 2200 - for the first three weeks of November.

"The Federal Police on the German-Polish border are subjected to high migration pressure. There are currently no signs that the situation is easing," the agency said in the statement.

Migration Crisis

The situation at the Belarusian-Polish border escalated on November 8. Then, there appeared video in the Internet, showing a large convoy of migrants on neutral territory near the checkpoint "Bruzgi," on the Belarusian-Polish border. According to the State Border Committee, their number exceeded two thousand people.

The migrants did not reach the border crossing 300 meters and turned to the woods and set up a camp there. They spent a week in the woods on the Belarusian-Polish border, and then on November 15 they left the spontaneous camp and gathered at the Bruzgi border crossing point. According to various estimates, there were about 3.5 thousand people there.

On November 16, the migrants tried to break through the Belarusian-Polish border. They threw stones at Polish law enforcers.

Later Belarusian authorities accommodated the migrants in a logistics center near the Bruzgi border crossing. About 400 people returned to Iraq by the first evacuation flight.