{"id":182310,"date":"2026-04-04T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/182310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:20:37","slug":"polands-court-sentences-several-people-to-prison-for-allegedly-trafficking-migrants-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/182310\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s court sentences several people to prison for allegedly trafficking migrants from Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 4, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> A court in Poland\u2019s Legnica has sentenced one man to eight years in prison for running a criminal ring that allegedly smuggled undocumented migrants from Belarus into Poland and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three other members of the ring were each sentenced to 18 months in prison, according to the Nadodrze Department of the Polish Border Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group allegedly trafficked at least 100 migrants into the European Union. Polish investigators identified 10 suspects, six of whom confessed to the crimes in exchange for leniency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flow of people seeking to enter the EU surged in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, indicated that Minsk would no longer prevent asylum seekers from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a transit route into the bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2021, the Belarusian government suspended a readmission agreement with the EU in response to sanctions imposed after the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have described the migration crisis as a \u201chybrid attack\u201d orchestrated by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, when the ring was dismantled, neighboring EU countries reported more than 25,500 attempts to cross the border from Belarus outside official checkpoints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, Pozirk. 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