“They wanted a better life, a better country, but something terrible happened to them at the Polish border. On the border between Belarus and Poland, a political standoff is playing out that puts the lives of thousands of migrants at risk. Many families try to cross it to arrive in Europe, but they are not prepared neither for the cold nor for the refusal of the authorities to let them pass. Some are killed in the icy forests near the red zone, and the others, plunged into terrible conditions, beg the locals for some food.
The inhabitants of Bohoniki, a village in the Tatar community, try to help them and bury the anonymous migrants found dead: “Funerals are always terrible, especially when the family of the deceased cannot take part. “The inhabitants organize ceremonies to these strangers to pay them a final tribute:” I do not wish anyone to experience this, to have to face this kind of tragedy. The inhabitants of Bohoniki testify to the situation in Poland in the video of our partner Brut.