Last week, the Federal Police again picked up a three-digit number of people in the German-Polish border area who came to Brandenburg via Belarus without permission.
From October 11 to 17, 699 unauthorized people were taken into custody at the Polish border, the Berlin Police Department announced on Monday.
Potsdam / Pirna - 288 people were picked up last weekend alone. In the entire week before, however, there were 810 people who came into custody; on the weekend of October 8-10, there were 392.
So in October, the Federal Police have picked up almost as many people at the German-Polish border in Brandenburg for unauthorized entry into Germany via Belarus as they did between January and September.
By Sunday the officials counted 3,302 unauthorized entries via Belarus and Poland so far, by the end of September it was 1,556. According to the federal police, the people who were arrested came primarily from Iraq, Syria, Iran and Yemen.
On the German-Polish border on the Saxon side, officials of the federal police attacked 135 people who came to Germany via Belarus and Poland from Friday to Sunday last weekend.
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"In the month of September we have an approximate six-fold increase in the number of migrants who come to Brandenburg across the land border compared to August," said Stübgen on Thursday in the state parliament in Potsdam.
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There is no end in sight to the conflict.
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Federal police take 45 refugees into custody
Officials of the Federal Police in Ludwigsdorf have again taken 45 smuggled refugees into custody in Saxony.
On Tuesday, on Autobahn 4 near Kodersdorf (Görlitz district), they stopped a pickup truck in which, in addition to two men from Ukraine, were four Syrians and four Yemenis, the federal police announced on Wednesday.
The 51 and 48-year-old Ukrainians were suspected of being smugglers and were given a four-year entry ban and were deported to Poland.
Federal police take 45 refugees into custody
The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko announced at the end of May in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU.
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