“It is very important to us that this border is tight,” emphasized the politician from the Law and Justice Party (PiS). Blaszczak justified the step on the one hand with national security. On the other hand, migrants from the Middle East or North Africa would come to Kaliningrad by plane and try to get to EU territory from there.
Additional devices for electronic border surveillance are to be installed along the barrier. On the Polish side, a fence is planned in advance of the border to protect wild animals. Kaliningrad, formerly East Prussian Königsberg, belongs to Russia and lies on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania.
Polish President Andrzej Duda supports “all initiatives that lead to increased security of Poland and its citizens,” said a spokesman for the head of state. Last year, Poland had already completed a wall along the EU’s border with Belarus (Belarus). EThere is no doubt that this would make a “hybrid attack” from Belarusian territory impossible, Blaszczak now emphasized.