Editorial of the “World”. The ignoble instrumentalization of migrants by the Belarusian regime, which, a few months ago, could appear as the last local outrage of an eccentric dictator, is in the process of transforming into a serious international crisis.
Whatever the minsk denials, the facts are now established. Thanks to the testimonials of victims and surveys conducted by the media, they are indisputable: the leader Belarusse Alexander Loukachenko has organized over the summer of airlines to attract migrants and asylum seekers from the Middle East to his country by making them Shimming a passage to the European Union (EU).
Once in Belarus, they are actively pushed to illegally cross the border with Lithuania and Poland. Many are then repulsed and some 2,000 of them are currently blocked in the icy forest between the two borders. In the field, the humanitarian situation is dramatic; At least eight people are already dead.
It is clearly, of aggression against border countries that house the Belarusian opposition in exile and, beyond, against the EU. European leaders finally took the measure of this operation that they now qualify for “hybrid attack”, an expression used by the Balties from the beginning but that Brussels considered excessive.
The real lever is Find in Moscow
When visiting Washington, the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, spoke with President Joe Biden. “It’s not a migratory crisis,” she said. It’s an attempt to destabilize an authoritative regime against his democratic neighbors. It’s the entire EU which is challenged. “
What can the EU do? Take a new series of sanctions against Minsk, with all their imperfections. Raising the issue to the UN, as France, Ireland and Estonia, Thursday, November 11, convening an emergency meeting of the Security Council, which resulted in a joint statement of Westerners asking for Belarus to stop. Act with the airlines involved. Going to see the leaders of the departure countries, when it is possible, to obtain that they do not make themselves accomplices from this human traffic: this is what the European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas has undertaken.