Event 84

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "Latvia",
    "LV-EU"
  ],
  "category": "Border",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Details provided directly from the State Border Guard and supported by date, location, and quoted statistics in the visible screenshot.",
  "countries": [
    "Latvia",
    "European Union"
  ],
  "country": "Latvia",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Latvian border guards have observed an increase in illegal attempts by third-country nationals and asylum seekers to depart via Riga Airport to the Schengen area without valid travel documents.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-01-19T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "State Border Guard statement cited regarding increased illegal departure attempts at Riga Airport",
    "Specific incident counts for recent months and for the year provided",
    "Details of intensified checks and context given in the article and screenshot"
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Border guards increasingly detect third-country nationals, asylum seekers who attempt to use air traffic for illegal departure from Latvia, the State Border Guard said on January 19.",
    "As several recent months, 20 asylum seekers have been detected at the Schengen terminal, trying to leave Latvia without valid travel documents, mainly on asylum seekers' documents.",
    "According to the information at the disposal of the State Border Guard, 39 third-country nationals have arbitrarily left on asylum seeker centers this year, just near the number of such cases was 152."
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Migrants Asylum System Abuse",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "State Border Guard statement cited regarding increased illegal departure attempts at Riga Airport",
            "Specific incident counts for recent months and for the year provided",
            "Details of intensified checks and context given in the article and screenshot"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "fifth_column_countries": [
    "LV"
  ],
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "More illegal departure attempts from Rīga Airport observed",
  "location_text": "Riga Airport",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_84_1763915515_1f52c84a.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Migrants Asylum system abuse",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/19.01.2024-more-illegal-departure-attempts-from-riga-airport-observed.a539571/"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Latvian border guards are seeing a rise in illegal border crossing attempts at Riga Airport by third-country nationals and asylum seekers, aiming to fly to Schengen destinations without valid documents.",
  "url": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/19.01.2024-more-illegal-departure-attempts-from-riga-airport-observed.a539571/"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "LV",
  "Attack Type": "Migrants Asylum system abuse",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "LV-EU",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LV;EU",
  "Date": "19-Jan-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Migrants Asylum system abuse",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "????: 3rd country nationals abuse the asylum system.",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/19.01.2024-more-illegal-departure-attempts-from-riga-airport-observed.a539571/",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}