Demonstration against migration in Zgorzelec suddenly canceled!

Demonstration against migration in Zgorzelec suddenly canceled!

Zgorzelec, Polen - in Zgorzelec, near the Polish-German border, a demonstration against migration planned for Saturday was canceled at short notice. The original applicant had announced up to 1000 participants, but only eight people appeared for a small protest at the border crossing. This cancellation took place on Friday evening and surprisingly came for the federal police forces in Görlitz, who had prepared for a significantly larger rush. The demonstration was organized by the group "Ruch Obrony Granicum", which set up self -proclaimed citizenship at the border and has thus come into the focus of the public. According to the sächsische.de supported by the right -wing extremist activist Robert Bąkiewicz.

The protest was not the first of its kind in this region; Already on March 8, a similar event took place on the border with Germany in Słubice. Symbolic wooden barriers were set up with the inscriptions "stop" and "stop" in order to underline the demands of the demonstrators. The participants chanted slogans like "Niemcy, never Podrzucajcie nam Swoich Gości na Próg" and called "Tu Jest Polska", which made their rejection clear to the immigration of migrants to Poland. This information also comes from opoka.org.pl.

political background and current developments

The discussion about migration and border controls has recently gained intensity. From October 2023, border controls on the German-Polish border, based on the Dublin III procedure, are already valid that only an EU member state is responsible for processing asylum applications. This means that migrants who get to Germany via Poland are sent back there. Criticism comes in particular from the Polish government party law and justice (PIS), whose MPs loudly warned the immediate restoration of permanent border controls during the protest, such as opoka.org.pl reports.

These strict regulations are part of a broader debate within the federal government. The traffic light government under Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) has responded to this and plans to introduce temporary controls at the German land borders from September 16. A model for legally compliant rejections is being developed to counteract irregular migration. There are currently rejections at German land borders, but this only apply in certain cases. Legal professors warn that such measures could violate the Schengen rules while the federal government is willing to take legal risks while deciding on how to proceed. These developments are part of a so-called "security package", which also includes measures against Islamist terrorism and tightening in weapons rights, as on [lto.de] (https://www.lto.de/recht/n/migration-streit-stiegung-faeser--benzkontrollen-zurueck referral) can be read.