Belarusian citizen detained in Valmiera municipality over transporting illegal border crossers
Border guards and the State Police detained a Belarusian citizen in Valmiera municipality, Latvia, on Sunday, 25 October. He is described as a transporter of people who crossed the state border illegally.
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A citizen of Belarus was detained on Sunday, 25 October, in Valmiera municipality in northern Latvia on suspicion of transporting people who had crossed the state border illegally. Border guards carried out the detention in cooperation with State Police officials.
Cases like this are linked to illegal migration: a transporter helps people who have crossed the border without permission to move further into the country. Authorities' joint action is therefore aimed at those who carry out such transport.
The source states only the fact of the detention, its location, the date and the nationality of the detained man. It gives no details on how many people were transported, where they had crossed the border, how the detention unfolded or what legal steps are planned against him.
Valmiera municipality lies in the Vidzeme region of northern Latvia.
