Latvian border guards were allowed to shoot at migrants without warning today, the 14th parliament, in its last plenary session, adopted in a final reading amendments providing "wider possibilities for the use of weapons at the border". "The Sims supported the initiative of the Minister of the Interior Dumbarbe to grant the border guards the right to use physical force, special combat techniques and weapons to repel an attack on an object protected by the state's border guard or an object of a state's border infrastructure." wrote Member of Parliament Arthurs Boutan of the National Association on Social Media. The amendments also provide for the possibility of using weapons without warning.

Latvian border guards were allowed to shoot at migrants without warning today, the 14th parliament, in its last plenary session, adopted in a final reading amendments providing "wider possibilities for the use of weapons at the border". "The Sims supported the initiative of the Minister of the Interior Dumbarbe to grant the border guards the right to use physical force, special combat techniques and weapons to repel an attack on an object protected by the state's border guard or an object of a state's border infrastructure." wrote Member of Parliament Arthurs Boutan of the National Association on Social Media. The amendments also provide for the possibility of using weapons without warning.