Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to continue the border controls, which he introduced after the re-entry of the Lebanese clan leader Ibrahim Miri. Seehofer drew a first interim balance of the measures on Wednesday: In more than 100,000 checks within 17 days 178 humans had been taken up, which were occupied with a re-entry barrier. This shows that strong police presence in the border area is indispensable to ensure the safety, said Seehofer.
According to the President of the Federal Police, Dieter Romann, 36 cases of re-entry bans were found at the German-Austrian border, 32 at the border with France and 15 at the Czech Republic. At German airports there were 19, at home 44. On the controls also includes the so-called Schleierfahndung in the domestic border area.
However, Romann said that there are only 577 deportation places available for the total of 248,000 people leaving the country. "That can not work out arithmetically." Since late November, the detention capacity has been exhausted, said the Federal Police.
The possibility created by Seehofer to house deportation detainees in prisons has hardly been used by the federal states so far. According to the left-wing MP Ulla Jelpke, Saxony-Anhalt is the only state planning to use the controversial detention option. Jelpke relied on a government response to her parliamentary request.
Some of those arrested have already returned illegally to Germany several times
A temporary entry ban is always imposed after deportations. Federal police chief Romann said some of those arrested have already illegally returned to Germany several times. Unlike in the case of the Bremen clan criminal Ibrahim Miri, however, most of them did not come to Germany from their country of origin, but from another EU state, to which they had previously been returned by the Federal Police in the so-called Dublin procedure.
The Dublin rules specify the country in which asylum seekers must apply for protection. In principle, this is the first EU state in which they have been registered by the authorities. Seehofer pointed out that up to three years have been imprisoned for illegal entry. It had to be thought about how the law could be made more effective.
The Home Secretary had ordered the controls after the sensational reentry Miris. The clan member had requested asylum upon his return, but this was rejected. Miri has since been deported again to Lebanon.
The Greens described Seehofer's balance sheet as a "farce". "The Minister deceives the population with its balance sheet security gain and endangered with the continued border controls over decades of growing European unity," said the Greens internal expert Irene Mihalic the news agency AFP. At the same time, various federal police stations remained unoccupied at stations.
The Federal Police Union, on the other hand, commented positively on the controls. "Without internal border controls, internal security can not be sufficiently guaranteed," said its chairman Heiko Teggatz.
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