It was the month of May. On the border between Belarus and Poland no troops were deployed. Nor was it, as now, “an icy hell”. A plane coming from Athens and heading to Lithuania was forced to land in Minsk under the pretext of a terrorist threat. The journalist was traveling on the plane Roman Protasevich, uncomfortable person, enemy of the people for the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko. Where is Roman Protasevich? Safeguarded. Like many Belarusian, Russian, Chinese, Eritrean, Cuban & mldr;
Lukashenko, protected by the old Russian motherland, embodied by Vladimir Putin, that has allowed him to withstand the demonstrations in the street that have questioned his authoritarian power, has continued the tactic of Mohamed VI, the King of Morocco. When Rabat wants to pressure Spain, it opens the border or literally pushes its own citizens, discontented or hopeless, or immigrants who have arrived before the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, to cross to the other side. It also happened in the month of May, when 10,000 people entered Ceuta. Lukashenko has also used the despair of others, immigrants from Syria, Ethiopia, Iraq or Afghanistan, to pressure the governments of Poland and Lithuania, so that they lift the sanctions that the European Union has dictated against its implacable regime. Travel agencies in Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut or Istanbul have sold a package to families that includes flight, visa and accommodation in Minsk, the Belarusian capital. It is an unusual migration route that, as if it were a new kind of perverse humanitarianism, the Belarusian government has opened to torpedo the eastern border of the EU.
Meanwhile, the ultra-conservative Polish government of Mateusz Morawiecki has deployed more than 20,000 soldiers, police, border guards, paramilitaries and reservists, volunteers from an aid network that hoards food, clothing and other materials (not for the great blackout, but for another political blackout that has already occurred: that of the bankruptcy of countries like Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan & mldr; partly because of the action or blindness of the West) to provide aid to those who freeze to death in the dense forests that blur the borders in this European strip where, as he recalls the american historian Timothy Snyder in books like ‘Tierra negra. The Holocaust as History and Warning ‘, has been committed some of the most gruesome atrocities of the 20th century, both at the hands of the Nazis, the Communists, and the nationalists. Poland, like Spain in Ceuta and Melilla, and with the approval of some European bureaucrat, is considering building a wall with Belarus. The Italian geographer remembered him Massimo Livi Bacci: “After the Second World War there were five countries separated by walls. Today there are seventy, despite globalization & rdquor ;.
Meanwhile, France dismantles a camp with about a thousand immigrants 300 kilometers from Paris, the governments of Greece, Italy, France and Spain put obstacles to the rescue in Mediterranean waters of immigrants in boats adrift because they encourage human trafficking, and trials have been held to punish compassion. Many immigrants are returned to Libya, which receives EU funds for it, despite the fact that (see reports from Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch) where they are exploited, raped, tortured.
To complete the border and moral mess, the governments of Poland and Hungary challenge the laws that are part of the framework that has made the European Union a universal guarantor of justice and human rights. Hungary has been condemned by the EU Court of Justice for persecuting non-governmental organizations that help refugees. And as a culmination, demographers and politicians who portray empty Spain (and Europe), recall with calculations that the fall in the birth rate makes the arrival of millions of immigrants essential in the coming decades if we want to maintain the European standard of living. But in the EU consulates and embassies in Africa and the Middle East, getting a temporary or permanent work visa is a pipe dream.
“On the shore there is a body that has been swept away by the tide. He comes closer to see it. Will it be yours?
No. He is a dead person.
And near that dead person there is another. And further, another, and another.
Behold, along the shore, the dark line of corpses left by the sea.
Some are very young children & rdquor ;.
That writes Ali Smith on ‘Autumn’, first installment of his tetralogy on a United Kingdom, “set just after the referendum of the Brexit the novel gives us to understand that the society that Dickens described has not disappeared completely, but has been transformed into something worse, a victim of moral and political decay, & rdquor; says its editor, Nordica. That’s the problem. That there will be more deaths. Like right now on the border between Poland and Belarus. As in the beaches of the Canary Islands or Tarifa. As on the beaches of Lampedusa or the Greek islands & mldr;
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