"Symbolic politics"
Ex-CDU leader gets caught up in border controls – and rails
Since September, there have been stricter controls at all German borders. The aim is to enable more refugees to be turned back. Armin Laschet has now also been caught at the Franco-German border. However, this did not suit the former CDU leader at all ...
Laschet told Stern magazine that he was recently on his way to Strasbourg (France) to attend the Council of Europe when he was suddenly stopped and checked by the federal police at a border town near Belgium.
Laschet furious: "This is symbolic politics"
Laschet took the opportunity to ask police officers whether the checks were helpful. "The officers didn't think so. Every federal police officer standing there is missing for security at train stations and airports," criticized Laschet. He added: "You can do it once in a while, but it's symbolic politics and not a permanent solution."
Police union also criticizes controls
The assessment of the police officers interviewed by Laschet coincides with the view of the police union (GdP). According to them, the new border controls have hardly contributed to limiting illegal migration, as the GdP chairman for the federal police and customs, Andreas Roßkopf, explained weeks ago.
Yet it was Laschet's CDU, of all parties, that had repeatedly called for tighter German border controls in the past. This was finally implemented by the traffic light coalition (SPD, Greens and FDP).
Baden-Württemberg's Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) in turn declared that he did not see an end to border controls with neighboring countries in the near future. The controls are needed at least until the planned European asylum reform takes effect. "That won't be before 2026."
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