Event 843

{
  "attack_type": "Weaponized Migrants",
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "Latvia",
    "LV-BY"
  ],
  "border_violation_modes": [
    "Land"
  ],
  "category": "Border",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Details, date, and official statements are clearly presented in the article and supported by a screenshot. The action involves direct reporting from the Latvian State Border Guard.",
  "country": "Latvia",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Latvian border guards fired warning shots to deter seven individuals attempting to illegally cross the national border near Acte parish and Kārsava district on April 24, 2025. The group stopped and complied after two warning shots were fired.",
  "event_time_utc": "2025-04-25T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "LSM English article 'Warning shots fired by Latvian border guard', screenshot, published April 25, 2025"
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "A border guard used a firearm on Thursday, April 24 firing two warning shots to deter seven violators from illegally crossing the state border, according to a release from the State Border Guard.",
    "The border guards immediately went to this group of people and gave an order in several languages: 'Stop! State Border Guard!' But the people did not react and started to move in their original direction. The people slowed and increasingly moved away instead of stopping, so the group issued two warning shots.",
    "After the warning shot or after the last one being fired and the group had stopped, two more continued to run away in the direction from where they had come. After the second warning shot, three people also stopped; said the statement."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/25.04.2025-warning-shots-fired-by-latvian-border-guard.a596739/"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Weaponized Migrants",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "LSM English article 'Warning shots fired by Latvian border guard', screenshot, published April 25, 2025"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Warning shots fired by Latvian border guard",
  "location_text": "Acte parish, Kārsava district, Latvia",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_843_1763940303_1d718a3a.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "??Latvian border enforcement escalates as migrants grow more aggressive.",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/25.04.2025-warning-shots-fired-by-latvian-border-guard.a596739/"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Latvian border guards fired warning shots to stop a group attempting illegal border crossing on April 24, 2025.",
  "url": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/25.04.2025-warning-shots-fired-by-latvian-border-guard.a596739/"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "Weaponized Migrants",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "LV-BY",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LV",
  "Date": "25-Apr-25",
  "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": "??Latvian border enforcement escalates as migrants grow more aggressive.",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "??Latvian border guard fires warning shots at aggressive border crossers.",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/25.04.2025-warning-shots-fired-by-latvian-border-guard.a596739/",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}