German Federal Police To Restore Border Control as During G7 Summit

The German Federal Police are ready to organize border controls to provide national security in case of enormous increase in the refugee`s, police chief Dieter Romann said Monday.

BERLIN (Sputnik) — The German Federal Police are ready to organize border controls, as it did during last year's G7 summit in Bavaria, to provide security in case the number of asylum seekers continues to increase, police chief Dieter Romann said Monday.

"Federal police cannot send citizens of third countries, who have the right of entrance and to seek asylum, on the border with Austria back to that safe EU state. Such a purely political solution would be legally unacceptable," Romann told the Bild magazine in an interview.

The police chief said that law enforcement agencies could arrange a special regime, as during the G7 summit in 2015, when "third-country nationals, despite being asylum seekers, were sent back to Austria."

"We proved the fact that federal police can really do this in mid-2015 due to the introduction of week-long border controls during the G7 summit in Elmau. This, by the way, happened with Austria's consent on the basis of relevant international treaties," Romann added.

The operational plans applied in 2015 now serve as a template for the introduction of border controls in the event of a new migration crisis, the media outlet reported, citing its own information.

During the June 7-8 G7 summit in 2015, almost 2,500 federal police officers guarded Germany's border, while 17,000 police officers patrolled areas inside the country. Some 160,000 people crossed the border during the period the special regime was in place for the summit, and 105,000 documents were checked. Police reported 8,600 violations of migration legislation and 430 cases of entry to Germany being refused.