Migration: Controls on the border with Poland now on both sides

Migration: Controls on the border with Poland now on both sides

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Controls on the border with Poland now on both sides






The Polish controls at 52 border crossings should be directed against smugglers. In some cases, cyclists also have to show the ID. Not everyone thinks that.

Poland’s border protection started with the announced controls on the border with Germany with great personnel expenditure. Since midnight, travelers have been checked at 52 border crossings, as the Interior Ministry announced on X. Most of them react calmly. But some commuters and buyers doubt the meaningfulness of the measure.

At a control point in Krajnik Dolny, the military police supported by the military police with police vests with the drivers coming from the direction of the Brandenburg city of Schwedt – such as Germans who want to recharge their batteries in Poland before the start of their working day. Trucks are not checked.

The Polish uniformed waves vehicles with Polish license plates that are traveling from Frankfurt/Oder to Slubice, mostly through on the border. Cars with German license plates are stopped briefly. Pedestrians are consistently checked here. Cyclists also have to show their papers at the checkpoint.

Right next to it hangs a banner with the slogan “No! Immigration”. It comes from the right -wing radical “movement to defend the borders”, which calls for self -empowered border patrols. Meanwhile, significantly more traffic is on the opposite lane, towards Germany, where many commuters are on the road and the federal police checked randomly.

Poland Interior Minister: Controls against Schleuser

“The controls are directed against those who are involved in the illegal smuggling of migrants across the border. Normal travelers have nothing to fear,” said Poland Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak according to a post of his authority. The border guards particularly have minibuses, cars with many inmates and vehicles with tinted windows.

1,800 men and women in action

According to the Ministry of the Interior, around 800 border guards, 300 police officers, 200 military police officers and 500 members of the volunteer homeland protection associations are involved in the controls on both national borders. Men and women in Flecktarn with yellow west stop travelers.

The controls should initially last until August 5. If you want to cross the border, you have to have a identity card or a passport.

At 13 border crossings to Lithuania is also checked. There, the Polish border guards arrested an Estonian citizen in the early morning. According to the information, he had four people in the car in his car who wanted to enter the country irregularly.

The center-left government in Warsaw ordered the controls in response to German border controls. Germany has been checking randomly on the border with Poland since October 2023 to stop irregular migration.

Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) had more intensive border controls shortly after the new Federal Government started in May. At the same time, he ordered that asylum seekers can also be rejected at the border in the future. The rejections from Germany are a stimulus topic in Poland – also because right -wing activists have spread the rumor, German officials transported asylum seekers who have not been in Poland before.

Dobrindt offered his Polish counterpart in his own words on the German side of the common border. So far, however, this offer has not been accepted.

Representatives of German business associations in the border area had pointed out negative consequences of border controls for goods and commuting traffic before the start.

“The introduction of the Polish border controls are the result of national solo on all German borders,” wrote the chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group, Britta Haßelmann, on X. Serter-like politics are the people in the border region.

Not all commuters and buyers are convinced

Andreas Ewald from Berlin, who buys in Osinow Dolny on the “Polenmarkt Hohenwutzen”, says that he no longer employs employees from Poland in his glass and building cleaning company. Because for them the journey because of the federal police controls is so complex that it is no longer worth it. He does not believe that these controls can contain irregular migration. He says: “The gangs behind it, they find other ways.”

Oliver from Eberswalde is once a week for working in Schwedt and then drives to Poland to refuel. He says of the controls: “They actually bother me less, is quite good for the security that less is smuggled.” It is only difficult if the border guards do not speak German and you do not know what exactly they wanted. But as long as only the papers are checked and not the trunk, that’s okay, says the young man.

dpa

Source: Stern

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