Interior minister Nancy Faeser yesterday announced that harsher restrictions would be implemented across Germany's 2,300-mile land border
Germany 's introduction of strict controls on all its land borders to crack down on migration and 'Islamist terrorism' has prompted anger from its European neighbours who are loathe to accept migrants turned away by Berlin .
Many European countries are supportive of more stringent EU-wide border restrictions to curb migration into the bloc. Czech press meanwhile have said that new border policies represent a threat to the Schengen agreement and the principles of free movement within Europe. Former Chancellor Angela Merkel - who famously declared in 2017 that Islam was 'not the source of terrorism' - opened the country's borders to over a million asylum seekers in 2015.
Berlin last year agreed tighter deportation rules and announced stricter controls on its land borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. Migrants fleeing the likes of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq typically cross into Turkey and flood into Europe via the Balkans, moving up into eastern and central Europe via what is known as the Eastern Mediterranean Corridor.
Right-wing Alternative for Germany top candidate Bjoern Hoecke gives thumbs up on the day of the Thuringia state election in Erfurt, Germany, September 1, 2024 The far-right Alternative for Germany stormed to victory with 32.8% of the vote in the former East German state of Thuringia, the state election commissioner's data showed, with the conservative CDU coming in second place with 23.6%.
By comparison, Scholz's ailing SPD party walked away with a measly 6.1% and 7.3% of votes in Thuringia and Saxony respectively, only just managing to scrape its way over the mandatory 5% hurdle needed to secure a place in the regional parliaments. The AfD in particular has seized upon a slew of recent extremist attacks to drum up support for its zero tolerance campaign.
Authorities said they believe he was planning to attack the consulate on the 52nd anniversary of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
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