Police stop 30 people patrolling the German-Polish border
The German-Polish border in Guben
Source: REUTERS
A right-wing extremist splinter party calls for “border crossings”. On Sunday night, the police picked up 30 people near Guben in Brandenburg. The mayor turns against “vigilante justice”. Opponents of neo-Nazis demonstrate in the city.
I.In action against a so-called border crossing by right-wing extremists on the German-Polish border, the police tracked down around 30 suspects on Sunday night. These people are part of the right-wing extremist splinter party “The Third Way”, the police said.
The party had called for the action to take action against migrants on the border. The people who were found near the village of Groß Gastrose had all been sent off for the border region around Guben in the Spree-Neisse district. The police will patrol the area through the night to prevent further such actions and to check compliance with the evictions. In the event of violations, those concerned would be taken into police custody.
According to the police, around 120 people are holding a vigil to protest against racism and for a human right to asylum in downtown Guben. The registered action should last 24 hours until Sunday afternoon. “We don’t want to leave the region to the neo-Nazis. We want to set an example that asylum is and will remain a human right, ”said a message from the organizers. The police are on site with numerous emergency services and work closely with the federal police, as a spokesman emphasized on Saturday.
Protest against right-wing extremists in Guben / Brandenburg
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The mayor of Guben, Fred Mahro (CDU), said he rejects any form of vigilante justice or the assumption of parts of the state’s monopoly on violence, by whatever group. He was consistently against any form of “border crossing” and asked not to follow this call.
The number of irregular border crossings at the EU’s external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border has been increasing for months. In response to Western sanctions, the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko declared in the spring that he would no longer stop migrants en route to the European Union.