Norwegian politician Ine Eriksen Søreide said Saturday the debate over the border is developing 'hour-to-hour.'
Ine Eriksen Søreide, the chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the Norwegian parliament, told the inaugural Helsinki Security Forum on Saturday that Oslo is tightening security at the Storskog border crossing, now one of the only routes for Russian entrants after Finland joined Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in closing their borders to most Russian tourists.
"As of yesterday, the government has increased surveillance and patrolling on the border. And also, of course, to look for something that I've been very concerned about, which is not only an influx of Russians who are fleeing the war or conscripts, but also the real risk of infiltration." Ine Eriksen Søreide, the chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the Norwegian parliament, is pictured speaking at the Helsinki Security Forum in the Finnish capital on October 1, 2022."People could come over that do not have honest intentions of coming or fleeing anything, but just mixing in with other people," Søreide said.
"We have also been asking the government to be especially vigilant on this, because we remember well what happened in 2015-2016, when Russia used...the influx of Syrian refugees to, in a way, overflow the border in the north." Then, thousands of migrants and refugees entered Norway via Russia using a legal loophole. New arrivals crossed on bicycles, navigating Russia's rule preventing crossing on foot and Norway's rule preventing drivers carrying people without documents.
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