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Tear gas and water pumps against migrants on the Poland-Belarus border

In use tear gas and water pumps Polish security forces took refuge on Tuesday to repel migrants who, they said, were throwing stones and trying to cross the border from Belarus.

About 4.000 Immigrants in total they have camped, according to Poles border guards, in the cold and in deteriorating conditions day by day, along the border between the two countries, with the situation, as is logical, sometimes escaping, as happened a few hours earlier today.

It is noted that charities have complained that at least 11 migrants have died on one side or the other of the border since summer. One of them, o Ahmad al-Hassan, a 19-year-old Syrian from Homs, was buried today near the border, on the Polish side.

A confrontation started last week near the crossing point between the villages Bruges (Belarus) and Kuznitsa (Poland), where hundreds of immigrants gathered, mainly from the Middle East, broadcasts the APE BPE.

“Immigrants attacked our soldiers and officers with stones and are trying to destroy the fence and cross into Poland,” the Polish Ministry of Defense wrote in a tweet. In Kuznitsa, “our forces used tear gas to stop it attack of immigrants “.

The Polish authorities also spoke of three injured among the members of the security forces: a policeman, who was seriously injured, a border guard and a soldier.

It is reminded that the European Union, international organizations and other Western countries complain Minsk for its orchestration influx of thousands of migrants to the borders with Poland and Lithuania.

In fact, Brussels and Washington announced yesterday, Monday, that they want to expand the sanctions against Minsk in the coming days.

THE Russia, for its part, a close ally of Belarus, has condemned the current use of chemicals by Poland, saying it was “absolutely unacceptable”.

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