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How are the new controls being carried out?
Speaking from a checkpoint on the border with France near the city of Saarbrücken, DW’s Lucia Schulten explained how some of the controls appeared.
“Cars slow down and when the police officers decide to check one car they pull over here to the side and they have to drive in front of the police station where their papers are checked,” she said.
“Since we’ve been standing here we’ve seen one of these long-distance buses being checked. Police went in there and checked the papers of everyone sitting in there and they also took one man out who had to go into the police station.”
Schulten explained that had been speaking to other European leaders over the weekend, with some expressing their concern about the checks.
“A lot will probably depend on what these checks will look like and what they will mean for the free movement of persons and goods within the European Union and if this will be a hindrance to them or not.”
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German police union head says not all vehicles can be checked
Andreas Rosskopf, the head of Germany’s Federal Police Union, has told the broadcaster RBB24 Inforadio that anyone crossing the border into Germany should now expect to be checked.
He nevertheless acknowledged that given the length of the country’s borders, police realistically won’t be able to stop every vehicle.
Germany has 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) on its western border, in addition to the 2,400 kilometers along its eastern and southern borders where the checks had already been taking place, he told the station on Monday morning.
Rosskopf said that “given the length of the border, permanent and intensive checks are not possible.”
“It remains to be seen how successful it will be in curbing migration and people smuggling,” he said in the Monday morning interview.
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Three arrested over cannabis possession after evading border check
German police arrested three men traveling with hashish in the trunk of their car, as Berlin introduced the new border checks.
A spokesman said the three had evaded a checkpoint on the A30 highway near the town of Bad Bentheim as they entered the German state of from the .
They did cross the border, but were stopped near the town of Rheine, about 30 kilometers (roughly 19 miles) east in the neighboring state of .
The three were said to all be under investigation on Monday morning in connection with the haul.
The new checks are at crossings with Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Controls already existed on Germany’s borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland.
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Germany starts checks at all land borders
German police have started as part of an effort to crack down on irregular migration and crime following recent extremist attacks.
Previously, only travelers arriving at Germany’s eastern and southern land borders were checked. Now, and for at least the next six months, northern and western borders will also be monitored.
This includes border crossings with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France.
lies in the center of the , which comprises 29 European countries that have abolished internal border controls, with passports only required at external borders and airports.
rc/rmt (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)
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