Migrants with experience in building tunnels have appeared at the Belarus–Poland border. This was stated on RMF FM by Poland’s Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration Czesław Mroczek. Last week, Polish border guards discovered a fourth tunnel beneath the border barrier. Around 180 migrants managed to pass through it from Belarusian territory, 130 of whom were detained.
“According to our findings, obtained during interviews with those who attempted to reach the Polish side, specialists were engaged to dig the tunnels,” Mroczek said.
Responding to follow-up questions about the origins of these specialists — whether they come from the Middle East, including the Gaza Strip — the deputy minister limited himself to mentioning Syrians.
“Among the migrants are citizens of Syria. In short, we have people there who, as I said, have experience in such activities,” he said.
Mroczek noted that the shift toward a “tunnel” tactic indicates the effectiveness of countermeasures.
“Previous methods have failed; now they are trying to enter through tunnels, but we are prepared for this,” he said.
According to him, Polish services are currently fine-tuning detection systems at the border to identify tunnelling more effectively.
“We are reconfiguring the entire system to detect underground activity,” he said.
The deputy minister explained that the sensors collect a large volume of information, which is assessed with the help of AI to filter out animal movements and so on.
“Therefore, we now need to calibrate this system so that… so that we successfully detect every action that… for example, underground vibrations. So it is being reconfigured,” he said.
