Eyewitness: Riot policemen threw protesters into paddy wagon and continued to beat there

One of the witnesses of drivers protest’s disband at Bruzgi border-crossing point told that riot policemen had cruelly beaten participants of the rally.

He said that policemen threw the protesters into the paddy wagon and continued to beat them there. The interlocutor of Radio Svaboda saw at least 10 beaten persons. He said that there were about one hundred of participants in the protest.

“People defended their lives. If could be not always legal, but people didn’t have other choice. Everyone knows who is to blame for the current economic situation. Diesel fuel is not to blame for that,” said the eyewitness of the events.

As said by another witness of the events, people were furious as they cannot go to Poland every day now. Not all people are travelling there to sell diesel fuel, some have their business in Poland, or their relatives live there. Now it that people cannot go at any moment which is convenient for them. People really were not allowed to cross the border yesterday, he said.

On June 12 a spontaneous protest at Bruzgi border-crossing point was cruelly disbanded by Hrodna riot policemen. According to reports, dozens were beaten up and arrested. Riot policemen used tear gas disbanding the protest rally. People were protesting against the ban on exporting a number of Belarusian goods imposed by the Belarusian authorities. For many years this trade was the main source of income for border-zone dwellers.