President Lukashenko made this known at a meeting with foreign and Belarusian journalists in Minsk.
The President was asked whether such a development is possible, taking into account the growing confrontation between indigenous Europeans and immigrants from other countries, including Muslim ones, the burning of a Quran in Sweden, the riots in France, and growing negative sentiments towards European bureaucrats in Germany.
He said, “I don’t rule it out. But I would not want this to happen to Europe. It would be dangerous to us, not as badly as a confrontation in Russia but still.
We are the center of Europe. God forbid, tensions flare up somewhere behind the fence. Well, we have this crisis in Ukraine. Do we feel good about it? No, we feel very bad”
“So I wouldn’t want this to happen to Europe. But they [the European Union] have been marching towards a civil confrontation, which might be even worse than in France.
France could have alleviated the tensions long ago, if not for some stubbornness of the authorities.
When you share responsibility for a crisis, you need to talk to people. The authorities in France do bear some responsibility.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko called the attacks against Muslims idiotic and stupid.
“Why do this? Even more so they do under the actual protection of the authorities.
What, the Swedish authorities could not stop it? They could. But they said it was legal.
They are creating problems out of the blue and these problems could be the reason for a future civil war,” the head of state said
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