China News Agency, Brussels, August 12 (Reporter De Yongjian) The European Union Border and Coast Guard announced on the 12th that in the first seven months of this year, the EU had illegally entered more than 82,000 people, a sharp rebound from the same period last year. Among them, Lithuania and other countries entered illegally. The attendance increased significantly.

  The European Union’s Border and Coast Guard said in a communiqué that preliminary statistics show that in June and July this year, the number of illegal entry into the EU was 14,600 and 17,300 respectively. In the first seven months, the total number has exceeded 82,000, compared with last year. An increase of 59% over the same period.

  Due to the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in 2020, the number of illegal entry into the EU in the whole year hit a new low since 2013, with a total of approximately 124,000. Compared with this, the number of illegal entry into the EU in the first 7 months of this year has exceeded 60% of the total number of 2020. The rebound trend is very obvious.

  Regarding the recent situation of Lithuania’s borders, the communiqué stated that in July, the Lithuanian authorities registered more than 3,000 illegal entries in the area bordering Lithuania and Belarus. The total number of illegal entries in the first seven months was about 3,700, which was a significant increase from the past; three-thirds of illegal immigrants. Two are from Iraq, as well as citizens of Congo (Brazzaville) and Cameroon.

  At the same time, in July, the Polish authorities registered about 180 illegal entries in the region bordering Poland and Belarus, and the Latvian authorities registered about 200 illegal entries in the region bordering Latvia and Belarus.

  In terms of the five main “routes”, the communiqué stated that in the first 7 months of this year, the highest number of illegal immigrants was in the Central Mediterranean (destination in Italy), with a total of more than 30,000, almost double the number of illegal immigrants in the same period last year. Mainly from Tunisia, Bangladesh and Egypt.

  Followed by the Western Balkans, the total number of illegal immigration in the first seven months of this year exceeded 22,000, an increase of 90% over the same period last year. The illegal immigrants were mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Morocco.

  In the first line of the Eastern Mediterranean (destination to Greece and other countries), the communiqué stated that in the first seven months of this year, the total number of illegal immigrants was about 9,000. The illegal immigrants were mainly from Syria and Turkey; in the first line of the Western Mediterranean (destination to Spain and other countries), the first seven A total of more than 7,500 people entered the country illegally in the past month, mainly from Algeria and Morocco; on the front line in West Africa, more than 7,300 people entered the country illegally in the first seven months of this year, with illegal immigrants mainly from countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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