With a sea of lights made up of thousands of green lights, refugee organizations in Berlin remembered the fate of refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border. In large illuminated letters, the initiators demanded a “recording now” during the action in front of the Reichstag building on Sunday. They asked the future German federal government to set up a humanitarian corridor.
The people who are currently staying in the border area should be immediately taken into Germany and be able to apply for asylum, so the demand.
The alliance includes the organizations Seebrücke, Campact, Mauerfall.jetzt and Wir packen’s. According to the organizations, 6000 lights were lit in Berlin. This is a symbol from the border region, it was said: With green illuminated windows, Polish citizens showed that they offer help and support for refugees.
For weeks, thousands of migrants have been trying to get from Belarus across the EU’s external borders to Poland or the Baltic states. The EU accuses Lukashenko of specifically having people flown into Minsk from crisis regions in order to then smuggle them into the EU. (APA / dpa)
