Report: Federal Police Union wants border controls to Poland – politics

More and more refugees are coming to Germany illegally via the Oder and Neisse rivers. In addition, many of them have Corona and endanger the police, writes union leader Teggatz to Federal Interior Minister Seehofer.

The chairman of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, urges that temporary border controls be introduced into 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 employees of the Federal Police, such as the image 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 like in 2015. Teggatz went on to write: “Our colleagues are also exposed to a considerable health risk, as the Sars-CoV-2 infections, especially in the migrants’ countries of origin (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.), continue to be are very high 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 migrants would no longer be prevented 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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