{"id":91111,"date":"2024-06-17T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91111\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"despite-surge-at-polish-belarusian-border-germany-apprehends-fewer-migrants-using-the-route","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91111\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite surge at Polish-Belarusian border, Germany apprehends fewer migrants using the route"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 17, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The German police reported a sharp decrease in illegal entries by foreigners from Poland and Czechia via Belarus, Deutsche Welle<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first five months of 2024, it registered 2,215 entries, whereas in the same period of 2023, it reported about 6,000 crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of 2024, Germany\u2019s Brandenburg federal state has recorded 1,021 illegal entries; Saxony, 867; and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 327.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, migration flows to Germany spiked from 26 entries in January to 861 in April and 891 in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since January, the European Union neighbors Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have not allowed more than 21,700 migrants to enter illegally from Belarus, 25 percent more than last year, Pozirk<\/em>‘s analysis of border guards’ data showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poland remained the primary target for illegal migrants, accounting for 88 percent of the reported instances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past few weeks, Polish border guards have been reporting physical attacks by aggressive migrants. Polish soldier Mateusz Sitek died on June 6 after being stabbed in the line of duty at the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis started in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU. It escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2021, the Belarusian government announced the suspension of a readmission agreement with the EU in response to sanctions that followed the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Baltic states and Poland accused Belarusian authorities of creating the trouble, while the latter blamed it on the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2023, the interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States warned that they would close the border with Belarus in response to a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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