(ANSA) – WARSAW, 07 NOV – Young Polish nationalists organize “patrols” to help soldiers and border guards to capture migrants who enter Polish territory illegally crossing the border with Belarus. The local media announced it today, stating that the initiative was launched by the Niklot association of Bialystok which aims “to defend the Slavic identity and cultural specificity of Poland”. “Helping compatriots and not immigrants”, announces the banner used for the first meeting of the “patrols”. The Border Guard reports that 570 people attempted to enter Poland last Friday alone and that in the entire month of October there were 17,300. A state of emergency is underway along the entire 180-kilometer Polish border, nevertheless many inhabitants bring aid to the woods so as not to let the refugees die of cold and malnutrition.

Source: Huffington Post November 08, 2021 09:19 UTC