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Update: Polish security forces clash with migrants on border with Belarus as refugee crisis worsens


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Two thousand migrants are at the Polish border and the EU says they are being lured there with lies.

 

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Poland has deployed extra troops after desperate crowds tried to cut the border fence on Monday. The border guard said more than 300 attempts had been made to cross illegally. The government warned of a possible "armed" escalation on its border with Belarus, fearing its neighbour might try to provoke an incident.

 

The head of Poland's national security department, Stanislaw Zaryn, said the migrants were under the control of Belarusian armed units. "Belarus wants to cause a major incident, preferably with shots fired and casualties," deputy foreign minister Piotr Wawrzyk said on Monday.

 

The EU, Nato and the US all say Belarus is orchestrating the problem. Brussels accuses Belarus's disputed leader of provoking the influx in retaliation against EU sanctions, imposed after his widely discredited re-election and subsequent crackdown on mass protests.

 

 

 

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German interior minister says Poland needs support to deal with ‘hybrid threat’ of politically organised migration

 

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Germany needs to get the “whole of the democratic world” onboard to support orderly immigration to Europe, its interior minister has said, amid a worsening crisis at the Poland-Belarus border.

 

Horst Seehofer accused Belarus and Russia of exploiting refugees and migrants in an attempt to destabilise the west, and said EU countries must stand together in the face of a “hybrid threat” posed by “politically organised migration”.

 

Polish police blocked hundreds of people from entering the country on Monday after Belarusian authorities had escorted them to the border.

 

Seehofer’s deputy, Stephan Mayer, told Bild that “Germany could send police very promptly to support Poland if Poland wants that”.

 

 

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Polish forces used tear gas and water cannon on refugees who allegedly threw stones at border guards.

 

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Clashes erupted between stranded refugees and Polish border guards at the Polish-Belarusian border early on Tuesday.

 

Refugees at the Kuznica border crossing trying to cross into Poland reportedly threw stones at Polish guards, who responded by using water cannon and tear gas, according to Poland’s Ministry of National Defence (MOD).

 

 

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