German authorities have taken the step of boosting controls on its border with France, it was announced on Wednesday. The French government has come under pressure to make a similar move.
Germany is boosting passport controls on its border with France, a police spokesman said on Wednesday, as the
country seeks to slow a record influx of migrants.
The reinforced controls will be implemented along the border with Alsace, a police spokesman told AFP, in response the refugee crisis.
In Baden-Wuerttemberg, we have stepped up controls, we are carrying out border checks as the situation requires,” said a federal police spokesman for the southwestern state.
“We are flexible regarding places and times as we carry out border checks.”
The spokesman added that the majority of the 1,900-strong federal police force in the state had been mobilised for the controls, but could not give a specific number.
In recent days the French government has come under pressure to follow the lead of Germany and bring back its borders, especially along its southern frontier with Italy, where hundreds of migrants and refugees enter the country.
While the government has dismissed such a move, the reality is that French police have been sending back hundreds of foreigners to Italy.
