Since Belarus no longer prevents migrants from continuing to travel to the EU, more and more people are coming to Germany without permission.
The idea of temporary controls comes from the Federal Police Union.
The reactions to this in Brandenburg are clear.
Potsdam - The proposal of temporary controls at the border with Poland in response to the increasing number of unauthorized people entering via Belarus met with skepticism and rejection in Brandenburg. Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) made his concerns clear. "Whether the capacities of the federal police are sufficient to control several hundred kilometers of the border with Poland and whether the effort is worthwhile can only be decided by the federal government," said Stübgen on Monday of the German press agency. "I have my doubts that temporary border controls will solve the problem and warn of an escalation spiral on the German-Polish border."
The chairman of the Federal Police Union, Heiko Teggatz, had justified the proposal for temporary controls on the border with Poland in a letter to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) with an "almost explosive" increase in the number of apprehensions. The "Bild" newspaper reported on this (Monday). Teggatz also referred to a health risk for employees of the federal police. He warned that there could be an escape movement like 2015 and the collapse of the security architecture.
Stübgen warned of the consequences of renewed controls: "Border controls or even border closings would put an enormous strain on daily life for tens of thousands of Germans and Poles in the border region," said the Interior Minister. “The artificially generated wave of refugees will not end on the Oder. In Brandenburg we can only cure the symptoms, the cause is in Minsk and the solution in Moscow. ”The neighbors in Poland should not be left alone with the problem.
The chairman of the interior committee in the Brandenburg state parliament, Andreas Büttner, also rejected the proposal after temporary controls at the border with Poland.
"From my point of view that would be the completely wrong way," said the politician of the left, who is a police officer by profession.
"The abolition of border controls is one of the fundamental freedoms of the European Union." The smuggling must end, he said with a view to Belarus.
The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko announced in May in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country that Minsk would no longer prevent migrants from continuing to travel to the EU.
Last week, the Polish parliament decided to change the law on foreigners, which will enable the local border guard commanders to expel illegally entered people from the country.
In October, the Federal Police attacked almost as many people at the German-Polish border in Brandenburg for unauthorized entry into Germany via Belarus as between January and September.
By Sunday the officials counted 3,302 unauthorized entries via Belarus and Poland this year, by the end of September it was 1,556, as the Federal Police Directorate Berlin announced on Monday.
The arrested people came primarily from Iraq, Syria, Iran and Yemen
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Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) believes that the significantly increased number of migrants entering Brandenburg via Belarus has so far been under control.
"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.
Stübgen hopes for a controlled entry despite the bottlenecks
The officers took 699 illegally entered people into custody at the Polish border from October 11 to 17.
Last weekend alone, 288 people were picked up.
In the entire week before, there were 810 people who came into custody;
On the weekend of October 8th to 10th, there were 392. On the German-Polish border on the Saxon side, officers of the Federal Police attacked 135 people who came to Germany via Belarus and Poland last weekend from Friday to Sunday.
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