(AFP) Germany has suggested increasing joint patrols along its border with Poland in response to increasing numbers of migrants arriving via Belarus, according to a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday.
The presence of border forces should be “noticeably” increased, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wrote in the letter to his Polish counterpart Mariusz Kaminski.
Seehofer was “concerned” about the rise in migrant flows, especially from the “Middle and Near East,” through Belarus into Poland and on into Germany, he wrote in the letter.
The German interior minister offered to “increase the proportion of German federal police forces” participating in joint patrols, leaving Polish forces to tackle migrants crossing the border directly from Belarus.
