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Czech increases policing along Czech-Austrian border over refugees

Xinhua, September 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Czech Foreign Police increased the number of police deployed along the border with Austria to 200 over refugees, the reinforcement will be deployed at three railway stations and 11 road points, said spokesperson of Czech Foreign Police Katerina Rendlova on Monday.

Rendlova said that Czech police expect more migrants try to get to Germany from Austria via the Czech Republic after Germany announced the resumption of checks along the German-Austrian border. The foreign police detained 12 people on Sunday night.

Rendlova said the numbers of police reinforcements will probably be gradually changed. It depends on whether the refugees from Austria will indeed go on to Germany via the Czech Republic and on how many of the refugees there will be.

Czech police have detained 51 refugees over the weekend, and the number for the whole week were 76. The number has decreased significantly compared to the last but one week when 519 refugees were detained.

Rendlova said the Czech-Austrian border will logically involve the South Moravia and South Bohemia. Foreign police assumed that migrants will use trains rather than cars, or they will go on foot. She did not specify the places to be checked, she said if this information released, people smugglers should walk the other way. However, people smugglers have avoided the Czech Republic until now, acting on the experience that the Czech police would detain and accuse them.

Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec will defend the country's negative stance towards the proposals for redistribution of asylum seekers across the EU countries at a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels on Monday.

The illegal migrants have increased by more than 109 percent over the past seven months of this year. A total of 6092 people were found in Czech Republic from January to August 2015, which is 3214 cases more than in the same period last year. Endit