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Added on the 15/11/2021 11:57:27 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The United States is preparing new sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in coordination with the European Union, over the "inhumane facilitation" of migrant flows on its border with Poland. SOUNDBITE
The blacklist of targets believed to be involved in human trafficking will be developed over the coming days.
Migrants take temporary shelter in a logistics centre building near the Belarusian village of Bruzgi on the border with Poland, after being moved there from camps where they were exposed to freezing cold temperatures. Poland has extended emergency measures restricting access to its border with Belarus which is at the centre of a migrant crisis the West blames on Minsk. Polish media estimate that at least 12 migrants have died on the two sides of the border since the crisis began in the summer.
Misled by traffickers, pushed back by Polish border guards or pushed past the barbed wire by Belarusian authorities... Three of our Observers, migrants who tried to enter Poland via Belarus, told us what is really happening during this crisis. Their voices and the videos they have taken give us unparalleled access to the challenges faced at the border.
He went on to warn that "today the target is Poland, but tomorrow it will be Germany, Belgium, France or Spain".