Three refugees from Iraq and Syria were beaten and robbed on the outskirts of a Polish town amid an escalating border crisis between the EU and Belarus
The West has accused the Belarusian regime of engineering the flow of refugees in retaliation against European Union sanctions.
One of the three, an Iraqi man, was taken to hospital after being struck on the head by one of the thieves with a metal pole near Hajnowka,A Syrian man who had crossed the border with the Iraqi man and his wife said they were attacked by three people, one of whom had a broken bottle. "We didn't think it was a racist attack, more like a robbery. They beat us to find where the money was. We didn't want to say," he said.The border guard service on Friday said that two Iraqi nationals and one Syrian had been detained.Marysia Zlonkiewicz from Grupa Granica said the Iraqi man was "going in and out of consciousness" when the volunteers found him.
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