270 migrants agreed to leave Lithuania for compensation of 1,000 euros

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More than 270 migrants will voluntarily leave Lithuania for their country of origin, who will receive a payment of 1,000 euros for this, BNS reports with reference to Rimantas Petrauskas, deputy head of the country’s border service.

According to the official, a total of 272 people will leave Lithuania under these conditions, the vast majority of them are citizens of Iraq, and a few people will return to Russia and India. Migrants are sent home on commercial flights.

As Petrauskas said, about 80 more people did not leave Lithuania, they will be sent in the near future.

According to the publication, officials accompany those who have departed to Vilnius Airport, to the flight, where they are given an allowance of 1,000 euros.

More than 4,200 migrants entered Lithuania last year, many of whom are Iraqis. To date, more than 1 thousand of them left the country voluntarily or were deported, about 3.1 thousand people remain in five accommodation centers. The Lithuanian authorities accuse Belarus of organizing the flow of migrants and call it hybrid aggression.

Source: Rosbalt

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