Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has shown herself open in principle to short-term stationary border controls at the Polish and Czech borders. "From my point of view, this is a way to fight smuggling of migrants harder," the SPD politician told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper when asked whether there would be short-term stationary border controls at the Polish and Czech borders. Such additional controls would have to mesh well with the surveillance of the entire border area by the Schleierfahndung. "For this purpose, we have already greatly increased the presence of the federal police at the Polish and Czech borders."
Faeser added: "But one should not suggest that no more asylum seekers will come as soon as there are stationary border controls." If a person asks for asylum at the border, then the asylum application must be examined in Germany, he said. Decisive, therefore, remains the protection of the EU's external borders, "which we achieve with the common asylum system."
Faeser had already said on Wednesday during a questioning of the federal government in the Bundestag, "To combat smugglers, it can indeed be right sometimes to make even a short-term stationary border control. That is quite correct."
