Poland begins work on new EU-Belarus border wall using the Greek border wall with Turkey as an example

Poland blames Belarusian regime for encouraging illegal immigrants to fly to Belarus promising entrance into the EU just as Turkey did in 2020 at the Greek borders

 

Polish contractors began work on Tuesday on a new 353-million euro ($407 million) wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring illegal immigrant crossings following a crisis in the area last year.

The 5.5-meter high wall will run along 186 kilometers of the border -almost half the total length- and is to be completed in June.

“Our intention is for the damage to be as small as possible”, border guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska told Poland’s PAP news agency on Tuesday.

“Tree felling will be limited to the minimum required. The wall itself will be built along the border road”, she said, adding that contractors would only make use of existing roads.

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Thousands of illegal immigrants -mostly from the Middle East- crossed or attempted to cross the border from Belarus into Poland last year.

The West blamed the influx on the Belarusian regime, saying it had encouraged would-be illegal immigrants to fly to Belarus with the promise of an easy journey on foot into the European Union just as Turkey did in 2020 at the borders with Greece.