The Federal Police trade unionist Heiko Teggatz has criticized the fact that Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer does not seek border controls with Poland in view of unauthorized entry via the Belarus route.
"We continue to demand the establishment of temporary border controls," said the chairman of the Federal Police Union to the editorial network in Germany.
Berlin - "I am quite disappointed with the decision of the federal government and still see the risk that the situation will worsen."
Joint patrols with the Polish police, as Seehofer had suggested, would certainly make sense, said Teggatz.
"But that alone is not enough."
Since the summer, the federal police have registered more than 5,600 people who entered Germany illegally via Belarus and Poland.
From the point of view of the European Union, behind this is the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko.
In response to EU sanctions, the latter had declared that he would no longer stop migrants destined for the EU.
Seehofer had recently suggested reinforced German-Polish patrols to his Polish colleague.
These should primarily take place on Polish territory and would be below the threshold of border controls, wrote the CSU politician.
"No one intends to close the border (...)," he said on Wednesday.
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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.
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The Green politician Luise Amtsberg also rejected border controls: "Schengen must be preserved as an area of open borders," she told the RND. "That is why I consider Seehofer's statement to be correct that border controls at the border with Poland are not the right answer to blackmail". Amtsberg called for migrants arriving in Poland and the Baltic States to be registered via Belarus and then distributed throughout the European Union from there. “In order to relieve these countries, a contingent of asylum seekers should be distributed throughout the EU through a relocation program after prior registration. In this way, the EU can demonstrate its ability to act and counter the blackmail attempts by the Minsk dictator Lukashenko without undermining access to a fair asylum procedure. ”Dpa