The police said that pepper sprays, a bayonet, a machete and batons were seized during identity checks at Guben. Some of those apprehended came from the state of Brandenburg, but had also come from Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin and Bavaria.
They had been sent off and then left the region around Guben, it was said. The people followed the call of the right-wing extremist splinter party “The Third Way” for a so-called “border crossing”, it said. A 24-hour vigil in downtown Guben, registered as a counter-assembly, went smoothly, the police said.
The German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer told the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag” that because of the irregular immigration to Germany, he would increase controls on the green border with Poland. He has already sent eight hundred police officers there to support the federal police.
