German Journalists Turn Attention To Pro-Russian MP Using Labour Of Belarusian Political Prisoners

• 30.09.2024, 11:39

An investigation has been launched.

German journalists are conducting their own investigation into using the labour of Belarusian political prisoners by German businessman and MP Jorg Dornau.

We remind you that it recently became known that Dornau, who once again made it to the regional parliament of Saxony from the populist ‘Alternative for Germany’ (AfD) party, has a business in Belarus.

His Tsybulka-Bel Ltd. is located near Lida, they grow onions there. It turned out that prisoners were brought to Tsybulka-Bel to process onions under the contract with Lida TsIP, including people who were detained for political offences.

German journalists found one of them. Lida bard Siarhei Charniak was arrested three times last winter for ‘distributing extremist materials’.

While serving his arrests, Siarhei was sent to different workplaces. Thus, back in February this year, one of Lida Telegram channels reported that he was being taken ‘to the local dump and to a farmer to process onions’, but they did not specify the places.

It is now known from Charniak's words that it was the Tsybulka-Bel enterprise, where he was indeed processing onions, and which Jorg Dornau visited on several occasions.

The Belarusian told the German edition of n-tv.de that together with him about 30 prisoners were brought to the farm to Dornau, including people detained on political articles.

Only these people were brought to the place of work in handcuffs. Also according to the former detainee, they were not given warm jackets to work in and they were not fed during the day.

‘We were not given food at work. In the morning they gave us breakfast at the TsIP. The next time we were fed only in the evening,' Charniak told German journalists.

The prisoners were looking through onions and sorting them by size. They were promised to be paid 5 euros a day for this work. According to Charniak, the TsIP was supposed to take the food allowance out of the money, but they never gave him the rest of the money.

German MP (AfD) Jorg Dornau, who admires the Russian and Belarusian regimes, concealed the fact of having a business in Belarus during the last election campaign, for which he was fined more than 20 thousand euros.

After the German press started to report about the use of Belarusian prisoners' labour on plantations, including of the people prosecuted under political articles, Dornau started to avoid communication with journalists.