HELSINKI: Finland has data exhibiting that hundreds of third-country migrants in Russia are ready to cross the border to the Nordic nation, Finnish Inside Minister Mari Rantanen advised a press convention on Tuesday (Feb 20).
Finland closed its japanese border with Russia late final yr amid a rising variety of arrivals with out legitimate paperwork to enter the European union. It accuses Moscow of funnelling migrants to the border, a declare the Kremlin has denied.
“Now we have data that hundreds of individuals on the Russian facet are ready to get to Finland,” Rantanen stated. This represented “a risk to society”, she added.
Rantanen declined to elaborate on how Finnish authorities had obtained the data.
