Migrants camp overnight at Polish border after tense day

WARSAW, Poland — Polish constabulary posted video aboriginal Tuesday showing a radical of migrants who had camped overnight conscionable connected the acold broadside of Poland’s eastbound borderline successful Belarus. Polish riot constabulary and coils of razor ligament faced the migrants and constabulary said the concern overnight was calm.

That followed a time of dense tensions connected the border, wherever a ample radical of migrants — hundreds if not thousands of radical mostly from the Middle East and encouraged by Belarus — sought to propulsion their mode into Poland.

In videos posted connected Twitter, tents and campfires tin beryllium seen arsenic the Polish constabulary play an announcement informing the migrants that crossing the Polish borderline is lone allowed astatine authoritative borderline crossings.

But arsenic of aboriginal Tuesday, the nearest crossing point, successful Kuznica, successful the northeast of the country, was closed.

The concern marks an escalation successful months of migration unit against Lithuania and Poland, and to a lesser grade Latvia, the 3 EU states connected the bloc’s eastbound borderline with Belarus.

The migrants are mostly from Iraq and Syria, though immoderate person travel from Africa, seizing connected the accidental of a caller migration way to participate Europe. Most question to lone walk done Poland to scope Germany oregon different countries successful occidental Europe.

Poland has received beardown signals of enactment and solidarity from the EU and EU subordinate states and the United States arsenic it faces its borderline crisis.

Germany’s outgoing interior minister, Horst Seehofer, said connected Tuesday that each EU countries “must basal together, due to the fact that (Belarusian President Alexander) Lukashenko is utilizing people’s fates with the enactment of Russian President Vladimir Putin to destabilize the West.” He called for the European Commission to enactment Poland successful securing the border.

“The Poles person reacted correctly truthful far,” Seehofer told German regular Bild of Poland’s reinforcement of the border. “We cannot knock them for securing the EU’s outer borderline with admissible means … the Poles are fulfilling a precise important work for the full of Europe.”

Seehofer’s deputy, Stephan Mayer, told Bild that “Germany could nonstop constabulary precise promptly to enactment Poland if Poland wants that.”

So acold Poland’s ruling nationalists person refused assistance from Frontex, the EU’s borderline agency.