The simmering conflict on the Polish-Belarusian border is not quiet: after the situation there escalated, migrants broke through the fence and Polish soldiers had to take action with water cannons against the desperate crowds who pushed across the border by all means, new ones are now arriving Background details on the thread pullers behind the onslaught of migrants to light. As the German news magazine “Focus” reports, the North Rhine-Westphalian State Criminal Police Office is currently investigating strangers from the human trafficking milieu who are said to have threatened a journalist with death after she warned against fleeing across the border. It is about the Kurdish journalist Alla Shally. Shally, who lives in Düsseldorf, produced a film that warned against fleeing across the Belarusian-Polish border.
Shally is the producer of a video broadcast in the Middle East in which Federal Police President Dieter Romann warned migrants urgently against fleeing across the Belarusian-Polish border to Germany: “You are hostages there and you are treated like cattle! Many of your compatriots have already died there! Do not sell your house and your farm, only smugglers and a dictator earn from it! “
The private broadcaster Rudaw TV had published Romann’s appeal in Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and English and reached millions of people at the beginning of this week. The Germany representative of the autonomous Kurdish Republic of Iraq-Kurdistan, Dilschad Barsani, told FOCUS that Romann’s video had been seen in every village and apparently prevented many people from their planned escape to Germany.
Threats are said to come from the left-wing extremist Labor Party
Several gangs of smugglers felt that the video was disturbing their criminal dealings, according to Barzani. The massive threats against the Kurdish journalist Alla Shally apparently came from the left-wing extremist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is banned in Germany and earns millions of dollars from human trafficking.
