Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) intends to resolutely oppose unauthorized entry via Belarus and Poland.
“We have to tackle the problem at the root,” he said on Wednesday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”.
The European Union must "stand up to" the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko.
You shouldn't allow yourself to be blackmailed by “such a despot”.
Dresden - In addition to the existing measures, Poland should now support securing the EU's external border, said Kretschmer. "The second is to impose effective sanctions on all those involved in this trafficking trade at European level". According to Kretschmer, this included airlines, companies, states and citizens who participated. The Prime Minister emphasized several times that the dimension of the refugee movements was still significantly smaller than in 2015.
Thousands of people from Iraq, Syria and other crisis areas have come to Germany illegally via Belarus and Poland since the summer.
The European Union had imposed punitive measures against Belarus.
In return, Lukashenko announced that he would no longer stop migrants en route to the EU.
In fact, Lukashenko is now operating as the “head of a state smuggling ring,” said Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas this week.
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Council complains about a lack of empathy for refugees
The Saxon Refugee Council has complained about a lack of empathy for those seeking protection who are currently increasingly coming to Germany across the border from Belarus and Poland.
This mainly affects people from Iraq and Syria.
"The life-threatening everyday life of two destroyed countries - like the disaster in Afghanistan - seems to have been dealt with, the need for support for people plagued by conflict fades into the background," said Dave Schmidtke from the Refugee Council in Dresden on Friday.
Council complains about a lack of empathy for refugees
Numerous illegally entered Brandenburg discovered
Numerous illegally entered people from Iraq were discovered by the police on Monday at various locations in Brandenburg.
On Monday evening, the Federal Police tracked down 41 people at the exit of Tantow (Uckermark district) using a police helicopter, as the Federal Police Department Berlin-Brandenburg announced on Tuesday.
Numerous illegally entered Brandenburg discovered
Stübgen hopes for a controlled entry despite the bottlenecks
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 Federal Police registered more than 5,000 unauthorized people on the Belarus route this year.
By the end of July, only 26 people came to Germany illegally via Belarus and Poland.
In August there were already 474, in September, according to the latest information from the Federal Police, 1903. By October 17, another 3,000 unauthorized persons had entered the German-Polish border, most of them probably also via the Belarus route.
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