Europe invaded

We must heed the warnings from Hungary and Poland about migration

MATEUSZ SITEK, A POLISH SOLDIER ON DUTY AT THE frontier with Belarus, was an easy target. As he tried to close a hole in the border fence someone holding a makeshift weapon — a knife taped to a tree branch — rammed it through the gap straight into his chest. Sitek, 21, died a few days later on 6 June. His murder was little noticed in the West, but it caused fury across Poland. Radek Sikorski, the foreign minister, demanded that the Belarusian authorities hand over his killer. They are unlikely to agree. Poland’s border fence is 5.5 metres high, runs for 186 kilometres and is topped with razor-wire. So far this year there have been 17,000 attempts to breach it — and 90 per cent of those caught have Russian…

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