‘They are people’: asylum seekers caught up in ‘hybrid war’ at Poland-Belarus border
Poland says it is under attack from its eastern neighbour, and its razor-wire fence reflects EU’s harsher migration stance
The fence is five and a half metres high and bristles with jagged rolls of razor wire. Armed soldiers stand guard, surveying the snowy forest, still and silent on a frigid winter’s day. Cameras atop the fence are scanning the ground, sending footage back to the nearby HQ, which is on alert 24 hours a day.
The fence was not built to keep out an invading army, but people desperate to get to Europe. Once a checkpoint for cars and lorries, Poland’s border with Belarus is now a militarised zone: a steel and wire demonstration of the EU’s increasingly hardline stance towards undocumented people.
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