The scenario on the Latvian-Belarusian border is steady, however undulating

Day-after-day, 15-70 makes an attempt to illegally cross the border are detected. Native residents of the border space within the Augšdaugava area emphasize that they really feel secure.

Extra worrying is the closure of the border management level in Silene and the issue of assembly kin in Belarus. The settlements of Saliena and Silene are positioned lower than 10 kilometers from the Latvian-Belarusian border. Contact info for the State Border Service is posted right here at each step, border guards are in all places. For locals, that is already on a regular basis life; they know that suspicious vehicles or randomly encountered migrants should be instantly reported to the accountable companies.

“The migrants requested one resident for water and Wi-Fi to attach. I didn’t observe any unrest, nobody complained throughout this time,” stated the top of the Saliensk volost authorities, Svetlana Kursite. “We’re actually secure. The police are answerable for every part, border guards, land guards.”

The State Border Guard emphasizes that the scenario is steady and managed. This 12 months, 1,915 makes an attempt to illegally cross the Latvian-Belarusian border had been prevented, ten individuals remained within the nation for humanitarian causes. As summer time approaches, the variety of violators will increase: in April, the variety of makes an attempt to illegally cross the border was roughly 800; in Might, there may very well be 15 individuals someday, and about 70 the subsequent.

“There are lots of individuals from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Mali. For instance, to get from India to Germany, they pay about 5,000-7,000 euros, and to get from the Latvian border to Germany, they want about one and a half thousand. This 12 months they’ve already been caught 11 carriers,” stated Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Scrimblis, deputy head of the Daugavpils State Border Guard Division.