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Destination Germany: Juan Carlos from Cuba reports on his way to Belarus
Meeting in Belarus, not far from the border with Poland. Juan Carlos explains that he comes from Cuba, traveled to Minsk via Moscow, then on to the border with Poland in order to finally get into the EU. He has been there for more than 20 days and tried twice to cross the border without success. There are seven Cubans here in the camp, all of them want to continue to Germany. He should therefore be one of those migrants who followed the call of the Belarusian ruler Lukashenko. He had opened the borders of his country to allow migrants, many of them from Iraq, for example, to travel further west and into the EU. In order to get revenge on Brussels for sanctions against Minsk, so at least the accusation of the European Union. According to the European Commission, the situation on the ground on the border with Poland has eased for the time being. Nevertheless: there are winter temperatures, helpers try to relieve hunger and cold. These migrants had to wait behind a cordon for food to be served on Sunday. Women and children were cared for in a separate tent. On Sunday, a delegation from the World Health Organization reached the provisional camp in a warehouse on the Belarusian side to get an overview, as these pictures from the Belarusian state news agency show.
He found accommodation with hundreds of others in a converted warehouse near the border with Poland. A WHO delegation arrived at the camp on Sunday to get an overview.