A migrant who was turned back at the Polish-German border on Thursday ended up in Poland anyway. This is reported by the German daily Welt. According to the publication, German services simply transported the foreigner to a location where there were neither Border Defense Movement activists nor Polish uniformed officers present.
On July 3, the founder of the Border Defense Movement, Robert Bąkiewicz, published a video online showing scenes from the town of Gubin. The footage shows German police escorting a migrant into Poland. Polish authorities were not present at the site. However, activists from the Border Defense Movement were. The foreigner had no documents and was turned back. We previously reported on this incident in the article below.
The matter was also covered by German media. According to the Welt portal, after the migrant was sent back by the Border Defense Movement—referred to in the article as an “extremist group”—the German police contacted Polish border guards and requested that they take custody of the foreigner. The Border Guard commander reportedly refused. So what did the German services do?
“According to information from Spiegel, the federal police later sent the 18-year-old across the border into Poland at Bad Muskau [border crossing in Łęknica – editor’s note], about 60 kilometers away. There, neither the self-proclaimed group nor Polish border guards were present,” Welt reports.
The news was addressed by the profile “Służby w akcji” (“Services in Action”), which covers the operations of Polish uniformed services. They directed a question, among others, to the Minister of the Interior and Administration, Tomasz Siemoniak: How do the actions of German officers differ from those of the Belarusian services, who also drop off illegal migrants on our side?