11 August 2011, 12:00
A family from Chechnya detained in Belarus during an attempt of illegal crossing the border
On August, 9, Byelorussian frontiers detained five natives of Chechnya, citizens of the Russian Federation, two little children among them.
Being on a duty detail soldiers of the frontier post discovered a walk of footprints in an exclusion zone. Detention of a family who tried to cross the border illegally took place in a twenty meters distance from the Byelorussian- Lithuanian border.
Head of the family, a twenty-eight-years-old resident of Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya, said that he had tried to move to Lithuania illegally together with his wife, children and a cousin aged 17 in search of better living conditions.
The woman and the children are now in a medical unit and the man is in a detention centre. Investigation is going on, web-site of State Frontier Committee of the Republic of Belarus reports.
Earlier, on July, 15, Lithuanian frontiers also detained natives of Chechnya at the moment of illegal crossing the border. Generally, expansion of Schengen area resulted in a stream of illegal immigrants from Chechnya for Europe.
According to the data of the embassies of European States in Russia, about 150 thousand natives of Chechnya are currently residing in the countries of European Union.
