Thursday, October 28, 2021
Saxony’s protection of the constitution warns
Right-wing extremists call for border patrols
While the number of migrants from Belarus in Brandenburg is stagnating at a high level, right-wing extremists are organizing border patrols online to intercept refugees and smugglers. The Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns citizens not to take part in such actions.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony has warned right-wing extremists against border patrols on the German-Polish border in Saxony. Actors in the scene such as the parties “The Third Way” and the “Free Saxony” would call on the Internet and above all on social media to protect the border from illegal immigrants entering Germany. “The monopoly of force lies with the state and not with enemies of the constitution,” said Dirk-Martin Christian, President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV), in Dresden.
The right-wing extremist party “Free Saxony” is currently aggressively addressing the issue on its social media channels and is calling for a meeting on Friday evening under the motto “Saxon border guards: end of the line for smugglers” on the A4 federal motorway, it said. Right-wing extremists strive “to exploit topics that can be connected to the middle of society for the sometimes subtle dissemination of their anti-constitutional objectives”. Right-wing extremists already pursued this strategy during the asylum crisis in 2015 and 2016 and more recently in the context of the corona protests.
“Right-wing extremists occupy issues that affect society and portray the governing parties at federal and state level as well as state authorities in precisely these areas as incapable and inactive,” explained Christian. In this way, they would want to give the impression that they are the only actor to take care of the concerns and fears of the population and to take responsibility for action. Christian warned against believing the right-wing extremist “carer strategy” and getting involved in actions of this kind: “The social center must not give in to such attempts at embracing right-wing extremists and thus help their strategies to succeed.”
Frankfurt Oder: The number of border crossings is falling slightly
The number of migrants coming to Brandenburg via Belarus and Poland has decreased somewhat in the past few days. “Where from August, the first weeks of September to the beginning of October, there was again and again significant increases from week to week, we have now reached a point where it has more or less stagnated,” said the spokesman for the Berlin Federal Police Directorate, Jens Schobranski . There are even slight declines. “Still, it’s a big challenge to manage all of this,” added Schobranski. In October alone, more than twice as many migrants were discovered after unauthorized entry compared to September.
Since the summer, people from Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other crisis areas have been coming to Germany via Belarus and Poland. The background to this is the announcement by the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko that he will no longer stop migrants en route to the European Union. Brandenburg recorded most of the arrivals, but Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are also affected.
In total, the Federal Police registered 4584 unauthorized entries with a connection to Belarus on the German eastern border from October 1st to 26th inclusive. Since the beginning of the year there have been 6,995. In order to record the people, the federal police want to open a new registration center in Frankfurt an der Oder at the beginning of next week. From there, migrants are to be distributed to other federal states. The previous registration office of the federal police in the central initial reception facility of Brandenburg in Eisenhüttenstadt will then be closed, said Schobranski.