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The Potsdam Federal Police announced that in 30 hours there were almost 5,000 rejections due to “violations of the crown”, that is, approximately one in three people checked.
Tight border controls went into effect on Sunday evening after Germany declared the Czech Republic and the Austrian state of Tyrol to be so-called virus variant areas.
The government defends entry restrictions
The federal government defended the measures. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in Berlin on Monday that it was “a temporary increase in border controls, not border closures.” Everything must be done to prevent the much more aggressive virus variants from spreading as rapidly in Germany as in neighboring countries.
Federal Interior Ministry spokesman Steve Alter assessed the high number of people turned away at the border as evidence of the need for controls. “That shows that there is this trafficking of people who do not fall into the categories that we have planned as exceptional circumstances at this time,” Alter said. “And these are traffic that we cannot afford right now in view of the infection rate.”
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Border controls in the heart of Europe, however, remain an “absolute exception”
The spokesperson also emphasized that the Federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer (CSU), considered that border controls in the heart of Europe were an “absolute exception”. It is necessary in order not to overload the health system and guarantee the protection of the health of the population. “Very tailored solutions” had been developed with the federal states and it was determined that certain professional groups would be exempted from the restrictions. (AFP)
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