The chairman of the Federal Police Union wrote a letter to Horst Seehofer.
Because of the increasing numbers of migrants, he calls for border controls with Poland.
Berlin - Due to the increasing number of refugees on the so-called Belarus route, the Federal Police Union has spoken out in favor of temporary controls at the German-Polish border.
As the
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reported, the union chairman Heinz Teggert had sent a letter to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU).
Accordingly, Teggert Seehofer warned of a "collapse" on the border with Poland.
For a few months now, the number of migrants arrested there has been increasing “almost explosively”.
According to the newspaper, Teggert wrote in the letter to the minister that the number of findings of unauthorized entry currently corresponds to the number of findings on the Austrian border in 2013.
Border controls to Poland required: According to BPolG "collapse" threatens
According to the union chairman, the officers of the federal police had to suffer from the situation in several ways.
On the one hand, he complained of a “considerable additional burden” from dealing with the cases.
On the other hand, there is also a "significant health risk".
The corona infection rate in the migrants' countries of origin is still very high.
The "overall problem" could not be solved by the temporary border controls to Poland, Teggert admitted according to the
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in the letter.
The fact is that the Belarusian "dictator Alexander Lukashenko is reacting to the EU's sanctions with the state-organized smuggling".
Europe should not get involved in such "games", warned Teggert.
Increase in migrants on Belarus route: EU suspects Lukashenko's retaliatory action
Since August, thousands of migrants - mostly from the Middle East and Africa - have tried to cross the Polish border from Belarus.
The EU assumes that Lukashenko will retaliate against sanctions decisions taken in Brussels.
It is believed that the Belarusian authorities are bringing migrants into the country in a targeted manner and smuggling them to the borders with the eastern EU states.
In addition to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia also complain about the increased arrival of migrants at their borders with Belarus.
EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson spoke in the European Parliament in Strasbourg two weeks ago about a significant decrease in the number of migrants coming to the EU via Belarus.
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AFP
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