The Federal Police have designated the German-Polish border as a focal point in view of the continued unauthorized entry of people via Belarus into Germany.
At the border with Brandenburg, the officers had found 3478 illegal entries with a connection to Belarus since the beginning of the year, the Federal Police Directorate Berlin announced on Thursday.
Berlin - From October 1 to 20, 1922 people came to Brandenburg without permission via this route.
This means that more than half of the people entered Germany illegally via Belarus in October.
Due to the number of unauthorized entries and in view of the high dynamic of the numbers in connection with Belarus, the border with Poland has developed into the current focal point at the land borders, said the Federal Police Directorate.
The border on the Brandenburg side is the focus for illegal entry.
The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko had declared in response to Western sanctions that he would no longer stop migrants on their way to the European Union.
The number of irregular border crossings at the EU's external borders with Belarus and at the German-Polish border has increased since then.
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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
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
Reception facility prepared for further refugees
Tents and containers are ready.
The atmosphere on the site is calm.
Laundry dries on fences.
Children play.
What the refugees experienced on their way before they landed in Eisenhüttenstadt can only be guessed at.
Reception facility prepared for further refugees
According to the Brandenburg Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU), the federal government wants to accelerate the forwarding of refugees from Brandenburg with a registration center.
The federal police should take over corona tests, security checks and first aid, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees should organize the distribution to other federal states.
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