Marion Gauthier 6:52 am, November 15, 2021

The Belarusian regime continues to press thousands of migrants from Iraq and Syria to the border with Poland.

Europe 1 was able to contact some of them, who witnessed the dire conditions in which they are trying to survive.

Threatened by the weather and by Belarusian forces.

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"People must not be used as weapons".

These are the words of the head of European diplomacy, who accuses Belarus of having organized the current migration crisis, at the gates of Europe.

Thousands of migrants are still massed at the Polish border, some try to force the barbed wire fence, others risk themselves in the primary forest of Podlasie.

These migrants mainly come from Iraqi Kurdistan and Syria.

Europe 1 was able to contact some from the Polish town of Bialystok, a few kilometers from the border with Belarus.

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"If you come back, I'll kill you"

At the end of the line, anger.

Mohammad has set foot in Poland five times.

To come back five times, behind the same barbed wire, surrounded by the same Belarusian forces.

At five in the morning, they kick us, shouting "Wake up! Go to Poland" [One day] I turned around but one of them threatened me with a knife in telling me: "If you come back, I will kill you".

Between the trees and the light tents, this father from Iraq feeds a wood fire day and night.

He is worried about his daughter, who is only 11 months old.

"I'm trying to take my family to Germany so that they have a future, which they don't have in Iraq. I won't go back there! I'm ready to die here! I just hope that my daughter is not going to die, ”he said, crying.

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Deaths in the forest

Death, many have grazed it.

Like Ammar's mother: she spent six days in hospital before being welcomed in a center in Poland where she rehashes the hell she lived.

"Her feet were covered with sores. She told me that they had walked for two days in the swamps. The forest is her nightmares," he explains.

A dense, humid forest, crisscrossed by the police and which probably hides bodies.

The associations fear a heavy human toll.