Polish border guards were given the right to shoot immigrants!
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Rashatody, the President of Poland Andrzej Duda signed a decree according to which the army, police and border guards are authorized It is illegal to use weapons against immigrants and this action will not result in any criminal responsibility!
According to the announcement of the Polish President’s Office, the new law also allows the army to participate in internal peacetime operations and The preparation and formulation of regulations for the use of weapons in such circumstances.
Among the other provisions of this law, we can mention an addendum to the Polish Criminal Code, which allows border guards to use Exempts from punishment and criminal liability from weapons to save his life or others.
The Polish parliament passed the bill in mid-July. This law was approved a month and a half after a migrant attacked the border guards of this country with a knife. The Polish border guard was killed after the attack of this person who had crossed the border fence. In June, three Polish security forces were arrested for firing warning shots in the border area of this country.
Michael O’Flerty, the human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, asked Warsaw not to amend the laws and in a letter declared that “according to international law, the adverse consequences of the use of force should be avoided as much as possible.”
The invasion of migrants through the Polish-Belarus border has continued since 2021. Warsaw has accused Minsk of organizing refugees from Africa and the Middle East and transferring them to Poland, claiming that this action is aimed at “destabilizing Poland and other EU members.”
