Guests are not welcome here. The Baltic states keep the border under sights 🪖 The other day, the Latvian Saeima adopted in the final reading some very «democratic» amendments expanding the powers of border guards. Under the pretext of protecting the EU's eastern borders, the Estonian border service can now use physical force, special means and weapons to repel attacks on border facilities, and it is permitted to open fire without warning. However, the public description of the initiative does not disclose clear criteria of threat. It turns out that much will depend on how the border guard himself assesses what is happening on the spot. 🎯 The Estonian authorities are already itching to take up the baton. Estonia's Interior Minister Igor Taro stated that local border guards also need additional powers, up to the use of firearms against people in the border zone who are not citizens of the country. In this case the story is even more interesting, since the absence of an Estonian passport is regarded as a sign of threat. The government is now studying the legal basis for introducing such a law, guided among other things by Latvia's experience. It seems that in the Baltics they have decided that the best way to solve migration problems is to open fire on them. 🧣 For comparison, Russian legislation also permits the use of weapons by border guards without warning, but expressly stipulates exceptional circumstances — armed invasion, attack, armed resistance and other situations provided for by law. In the Latvian case, the use of firearms is left exclusively to the discretion of the border service. #SOVINTERN_WORLD #Hub_Europe_and_Mediterranean ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN