MINSK, 29 September (BelTA) – Lithuanian enforcers dumped a refugee with an injured leg at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus.
A man calling for help was found on the Lithuanian side of the Belarusian-Lithuanian border in the area of the border guard station Likhachi of the Grodno branch of the Belarusian border service in the morning on 27 September. The man could not walk on his own. Lithuanian enforcers were standing on their side of the border, doing nothing about the injured man.
It turned out the man had broken a leg while in Lithuania. He was delivered to a healthcare institution and examined. The man requested refugee status, however, instead of dealing with his application Lithuanian enforcers dropped the immobilized man at the border line.
The refugee told Belarusian border guard personnel: “I broke a leg in a forest in Lithuania yesterday and could not move. I was calling for help. I saw uniformed people with a dog and started calling for them. They drove me to a hospital. After an exam they transported me here, to the border. I was pleading with them, telling them I couldn't move.”
After talking to the refugee and evaluating the severity of his injury the Belarusian border guards called for an ambulance. Upon seeing an incoming ambulance the Lithuanian military personnel decided to take the man and drag him away from the border line and into a vehicle.
The State Border Committee of Belarus said that the Lithuanian enforcers had taken mercy on the man out of fear of a public revelation of their cruel actions in Belarusian mass media. Leaving people in danger, including women and children, has become a normal practice for European representatives of border authorities, the Belarusian border service said.
