Two undocumented migrants bound for Amsterdam instead sent to Pabradė

A planned flight to Amsterdam ended with two undocumented migrants being taken to a reception center in Pabradė after Lithuanian border guards stopped them at Vilnius Airport.

The men were checked near a boarding gate in the Schengen departure terminal. They initially identified themselves as Somali and French citizens, but neither had identity documents. Officers found digital boarding passes on their phones showing the details of a 21-year-old Somali citizen and a 25-year-old French citizen.

During questioning, the man who claimed to be French admitted that he was actually an Algerian citizen. He said an unknown man had advised him to get rid of his documents before traveling to Latvia so Lithuanian officials could not identify him.

Both men told officials that they had driven into Lithuania from Latvia. They said they had reached Latvia illegally after crossing a section of the border fence from Belarus.

The migrants were handed to officials at the State Border Guard Service foreigners’ registration center and later housed at a reception center run by the Reception and Integration Agency in Pabradė. The account also said secondary migration from Latvia had increased, reaching 1,836 cases in the first seven months of this year, compared with 1,288 in 2025.