{"id":1020222,"date":"2021-11-16T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020222"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:44:51","slug":"polish-authorities-use-water-cannons-tear-gas-to-push-back-migrants-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polish-authorities-use-water-cannons-tear-gas-to-push-back-migrants-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Authorities Use Water Cannons, Tear Gas To Push Back Migrants At Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolish-authorities-use-water-cannons-tear-gas-to-push-back-migrants-at-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">The crisis at the border between Belarus and Poland has escalated in recent days after multiple nights of intense showdowns, with&nbsp;Polish authorities using water cannons and tear gas to push back migrants who they said were trying to get past the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/poland-belarus-border-crisis-lukashenko-putin-russia-europe\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cThere were chaotic scenes as a group of migrants charged the fence. One of the migrants told CBS News that Polish police responded with a volley of tear gas and rubber bullets, as well as the water cannon. Migrants were seen hurling rocks and stones at the barbed wire fence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/16\/world\/europe\/poland-belarus-border-crisis.html?referringSource=articleShare\">reported<\/a> by The New York Times:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Polish authorities, in a series of Twitter messages, said that border guards at the border crossing between Bruzgi and Kuznica in Poland had been assaulted by people throwing \u201cstones, bottles and logs\u201d and firing \u201cstun grenades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe entire aggressive behavior is coordinated by Belarusian services and monitored by drones,\u201d the Polish authorities said, posting videos of the confrontations. \u201cAs a result of an attack by people inspired by the Belarusian side, one of the policemen was seriously injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At least 11 people have reportedly died in the past few weeks at the border.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The situation has worsened as migrants convened on the border of Belarus and Poland, in an act that leaders in the European Union have blamed on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2021-11-14\/europes-last-dictator-raises-the-stakes-with-the-west\">Europe\u2019s last dictator<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The European Union has blamed Lukashenko for orchestrating the new crisis in order to create an issue at the Polish border in retribution for the European Union\u2019s sanctions on Belarus earlier this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/15\/world\/europe\/belarus-poland-eu-sanctions-migrants.html\">reported<\/a> by The New York Times on Monday, \u201cEuropean Union foreign ministers adopted new sanctions on the government of&nbsp;Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The recent sanctions would aim at \u201cindividuals and entities organizing or contributing to activities by the Lukashenko regime that facilitate illegal crossing of the E.U.\u2019s external borders,\u201d according to the European Commission, per The Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Russia has stood by its ally of Belarus during the process, and Lukashenko warned Tuesday he could involve Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI will talk with the President of Russia and ask him to get involved and, if necessary, provide appropriate assistance, without drawing them [Russia] into this refugee crisis,\u201d Lukashenko reportedly said ahead of a phone conversation with Putin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last week, Lukashenko threatened Europe with eliminating gas resources.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/belarus-threaten-europe-gas\/2021\/11\/11\/970c725c-42df-11ec-9404-50a28a88b9cd_story.html\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;told Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko that if Europe creates new sanctions, \u201cyou must not forgive them anything.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe are warning Europe, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crisis at the border between Belarus and Poland has escalated in recent days after multiple nights of intense showdowns, with\u00a0Polish authorities using water cannons and tear gas to push back migrants who they said were trying to get past the border.As CBS News reported, \u201cThere were chaotic scenes as a group of migrants charged the fence. One of the migrants told CBS News that Polish police responded with a volley of tear gas and rubber bullets, as well as the water cannon. Migrants were seen hurling rocks and stones at the barbed wire fence.\u201dAs reported by The New York Times:The Polish authorities, in a series of Twitter messages, said that border guards at the border crossing between Bruzgi and Kuznica in Poland had been assaulted by people throwing \u201cstones, bottles and logs\u201d and firing \u201cstun grenades.\u201d\u201cThe entire aggressive behavior is coordinated by Belarusian services and monitored by drones,\u201d the Polish authorities said, posting videos of the confrontations. \u201cAs a result of an attack by people inspired by the Belarusian side, one of the policemen was seriously injured.\u201dAt least 11 people have reportedly died in the past few weeks at the border.\u00a0The situation has worsened as migrants convened on the border of Belarus and Poland, in an act that leaders in the European Union have blamed on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, known as \u201cEurope\u2019s last dictator.\u201dThe European Union has blamed Lukashenko for orchestrating the new crisis in order to create an issue at the Polish border in retribution for the European Union\u2019s sanctions on Belarus earlier this year.\u00a0As reported by The New York Times on Monday, \u201cEuropean Union foreign ministers adopted new sanctions on the government of\u00a0Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.\u201d\u00a0The recent sanctions would aim at \u201cindividuals and entities organizing or contributing to activities by the Lukashenko regime that facilitate illegal crossing of the E.U.\u2019s external borders,\u201d according to the European Commission, per The Times.Russia has stood by its ally of Belarus during the process, and Lukashenko warned Tuesday he could involve Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u201cI will talk with the President of Russia and ask him to get involved and, if necessary, provide appropriate assistance, without drawing them [Russia] into this refugee crisis,\u201d Lukashenko reportedly said ahead of a phone conversation with Putin.Last week, Lukashenko threatened Europe with eliminating gas resources.\u00a0\u00a0He\u00a0reportedly\u00a0told Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko that if Europe creates new sanctions, \u201cyou must not forgive them anything.\u201d\u00a0\u201cWe are warning Europe, and yet they threaten to close the border,\u201d Lukashenko said, per the Belarusian state news source, as\u00a0reported\u00a0by The New York Times. \u201cWhat if we close off the natural gas headed there? I would recommend the leadership of Poland, the Lithuanians and other brainless people to think before they speak.\u201dAs The Daily Wire\u00a0reported\u00a0last week, \u201cOn Tuesday, Lithuania declared a state of emergency on its border with Belarus, while Poland also reacted to the thousands of migrants who have flocked to the border between Belarus and Poland.\u201d\u00a0Poland\u2019s president, Andrzej Duda, said at the time: \u201cThe Belarusian regime is attacking the Polish border, the EU, in an unparalleled manner. We currently have a camp of migrants who are blocked from the Belarusian side. These are aggressive actions that we must repel, fulfilling our obligations as a member of the European Union.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}