Media report: Federal police union for border controls in Poland

Media report
Federal police union for border controls to Poland

The central initial reception facility for asylum seekers (ZABH) of the state of Brandenburg. Photo: Patrick Pleul / dpa-Zentralbild / ZB

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For a few months now, the number of migrants coming to Germany via Belarus and Poland has been increasing. Now the Federal Police Union is turning to Seehofer – and calling for stricter measures.

The chairman of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, urges the introduction of temporary border controls in Poland.

Teggatz justified this in a letter to Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU), among other things, with a high number of unauthorized entries at the German-Polish border and the health risk for the employees of the Federal Police, as the “Bild” reported.

“For several months, the number of apprehensions has increased almost explosively,” the newspaper quoted from the letter. Only with the introduction of temporary border controls could the federal government prevent a “collapse” at the borders, as in 2015.

Teggatz continued: “Our colleagues are also exposed to a considerable health risk, as SARS COV-2 infections are still very high, especially in the migrants’ countries of origin (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.) and are only very rarely recorded by the authorities. ” Hygiene regulations, as is common in Germany and Europe, would of course not be adhered to in the “smuggling process”.

The governments in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are accusing the Belarusian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, of bringing refugees from crisis regions to the EU’s external border in an organized manner. Lukashenko announced at the end of May that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU – in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country. Since then, reports of attempted illegal border crossings at the EU’s external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border have increased.

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