Illegal pushbacks: Iraqis report violence by Polish police officers (video)

“The Polish police beat us. It was really a bad story for us in the wilderness. We came to Poland four times and the Polish police repeatedly deported us to Belarus. They left us in the wilderness. We had no water . I asked the Polish police, please give us water for the children. They didn’t give us any water, “says the Iraqi refugee Sangar Abdulla, who is currently living in the initial reception center in Eisenhüttenstadt. He, his wife, sister and seven-year-old son are doing well here. But it was a long way to get here. “We gave money to a man who had a car. He took us to the border and we followed him there and he helped us get over to Poland after we had been deported from Poland to Belarus three or four times. Finally also helped us person to come to Germany. ” Abdulla hopes that he and his family can stay in Germany and are finally safe. “I hope for the future of my son that he will be safe here and go to school, and that my family is better off than in Iraq, that we have a better life than in Iraq.” Olaf Jensen, head of initial reception in Eisenhüttenstadt, says what is important these days. “That we bring people to the asylum procedure relatively quickly, i.e. within days, so that they are of course taken care of, but also that the identity of every person is recorded, so to speak, and we also, for example, what happened frequently in 2015, that there are no multiple applications and the like, so that everything is in order, so to speak. ” He doesn’t believe in border controls because the federal police are already picking up almost everyone, said Jansen. They would only hinder citizens who live and work on both sides of the border in their everyday lives. According to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the number of asylum seekers from January to September was around 80,000. A number that roughly corresponds to the mean values ​​for the past 30 years. A comparison with the years 14-16, according to Seehofer, is not permissible.