Under the pressure of the arrival of a large number of migrants, the Government of Germany informed the European Commission today about the establishment of temporary police systematic surveillance of the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, as it has been on the border with Austria since 2015.
Last month, Interior Minister Nancy Fesser ordered increased police control along the eastern borders, but Switzerland was not mentioned at the time.
Feser said in a statement today that "the work of smugglers is becoming more and more brutal and unscrupulous", and cited an accident on a highway in Bavaria on Friday in which seven people died when a van loaded with migrants overturned while fleeing from a police patrol.
The adoption of a law to facilitate the deportation of unsuccessful asylum seekers was also announced.
Shelters for migrants and refugees throughout Germany have been full in recent months because a significant number of migrants - asylum seekers - are added every day to the one million Ukrainians who came fleeing the war in their country.
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