A truck with 27 foreigners hidden in a semi hit the Budzsko close the border with Lithuania. The driver of the vehicle has been detained. The detection took place during the joint control of the Podlasie borderers and taxation collectors.
Control under Suwałki
The event took place in Budzisk, at the erstwhile border crossing with Lithuania. The truck was checked together by border guards from the Podlaskie Border defender Branch and customs officer of the Customs and taxation Service of Podlasie National taxation Administration. Inside the trailer they found 27 foreigners. The driver has been detained and will hear charges related to their transport.
Route through the east border
Suwałk and Budziska division lies on 1 of the corridors of human smuggling in this part of Europe. Since 2021, erstwhile Belarus began directing visitors from the mediate East and Africa to the borders of Poland and Lithuania, migration force in Podlasie has remained high. Those who cross the green border frequently find themselves in the hands of organized groups who, for a fee, effort to decision them further west. Trucks and their semi-trailers become the most common means of transport.
Business for smuggling people
Smuggling people is an organized business in which a man becomes a cargo. Carrying respective twelve people in a closed semi is dangerous for those who are transported, due to the fact that it threatens to choke or overheat. Organizing illegal border crossing in Poland is simply a crime threatened by prison sentences. For the service, any specified control is an component of regular work on the east frontier, where the smuggling movement does not weaken.
A fragment of greater pressure
Stopping in the Alarm Clock in itself is simply a local event. However, it is reflected in a broader image of the force on the east border, which Minsk has been controlling for years. Each intercepted truck is 1 exposed section of the way that runs further, beyond the personnel of 1 control. The scale of the phenomenon shows that border protection remains 1 of the real tasks of the state.
