WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda called it stunning and the minister of defense required descriptions Thursday after it emerged that 3 soldiers were handcuffed and apprehended by Polish military cops in March for having actually fired cautioning shots when confronted with an advancing group of migrants on the border with Belarus.
The circumstance at the European Union’s eastern border is progressively tense under pressure from countless individuals from the Middle East, Asia and Africa attempting to require the metal barrier that Poland set up in 2022 to seal the frontier, which is patrolled by Polish army soldiers and border guards. Just recently, some officers needed healthcare facility treatment for knife and other injuries caused from behind the barrier.
In March, military cops apprehended 3 soldiers after they apparently fired cautioning shots into the air and after that into the ground as they attempted to stop an advancing migrant group on Polish area. Nobody was hurt. Polish media report growing discontent amongst the military over the method their associates were dealt with.
Federal government authorities state the detention was an extreme step offered the scenarios.
“This is a stunning case, thinking about the reality that our soldiers were just recently consistently assaulted by assailants from the Belarus side,” Duda stated.
Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stated the military cops overreacted and required information from them and from the district attorneys who are examining. Among the soldiers apprehended has actually been cleared of the claims.
“The soldiers at the border are performing an objective for the Polish state,” Kosiniak-Kamysz informed a press conference Thursday.
“We are constantly on the side of the soldiers … of those who perform their jobs at the border,” he stated, including that soldiers, in charge of securing the border because 2022, have actually utilized weapons in emergency situation scenarios some 700 times.
Poland and the EU state migrant groups are arranged and assisted by Russia and its ally Belarus to destabilize Europe. Their pressure heightened this spring, ahead of essential elections to the European Parliament.