BERLIN —
German police stated on Sunday they’d stopped greater than 50 far-right vigilantes armed with pepper spray, a bayonet, a machete and batons who had been attempting to patrol the Polish border to cease migrants from getting into the nation.
The vigilantes had been following a name by the Third Method, a far right-party with suspected hyperlinks to neo-Nazi teams, for its members to cease unlawful crossings close to the city of Guben on the German-Polish border.
Police seized the weapons carried by the 50 suspects and made them depart the Guben space late on Saturday and within the early hours of Sunday, a spokesperson stated. A number of the suspects had traveled to the Polish border from different components of Germany.
On Saturday, dozens of individuals held a vigil in Guben to indicate their opposition to the deliberate far-right patrols.
Germany has stationed an additional 800 cops on the Polish border to regulate the movement of migrants attempting to enter the European Union from Belarus, the inside minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
“Lots of of officers are at present on responsibility there day and evening. If needed, I’m ready to strengthen them even additional,” Horst Seehofer instructed the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
Seehofer stated there had already been 6,162 unauthorized entries into Germany from Belarus and Poland this yr.
Final week, Seehofer stated Germany didn’t intend to shut the border with Poland, however on Sunday he stated the nation might need to contemplate reintroducing controls.
“If the state of affairs on the German-Polish border doesn’t ease, we can even have to contemplate whether or not this step must be taken in coordination with Poland and the state of Brandenburg. This choice will come to the subsequent authorities,” he stated.
The three German events working to type a coalition authorities say they purpose to wrap up talks by the top of November and elect Social Democrat Olaf Scholz chancellor in December.
Many EU states accuse Minsk of sending unlawful migrants throughout the border into the EU to place strain on the bloc, which imposed sanctions on Belarus after President Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed re-election in August 2020.
Lukashenko denies this and has blamed the West for what he says is a looming humanitarian disaster this winter after migrants had been left stranded on the Belarusian-Polish border.
