Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski defended an “absolutely strategic investment” for the security of his country.
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Poland will start construction of a wall along the border with Belarus in December, announced (link in Polish) the Polish Minister of the Interior Mariusz Kaminski, Monday November 15. “The business that we must carry out is an absolutely strategic and priority investment for the security of the nation and its citizens”, he defended in a statement.
The ministry stressed that the corresponding contracts would be signed by December 15 and that the work would begin later that same month, the workers having to take turns 24 hours a day in three shifts. The structure will cost around 353 million euros and is expected to extend over 180 kilometers, or about half the total length of the border between Poland and Belarus.
Parliament gave the green light to the construction of this wall last month. Since the summer, thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East, have crossed or attempted to cross this border. As a result, Poland dispatched thousands of troops to the border area where it declared a state of emergency, while hastily erecting a barbed wire fence.