The number of unauthorized entries into Germany reached a new high last year since 2017, with almost 58,000 cases registered by the Federal Police. One of the reasons for this is the Belarusian government, which is bringing refugees to the EU’s borders. But the pandemic is also driving the number up.
Last year, the Federal Police recorded a significant increase in unauthorized migration to Germany. Officials recorded 57,637 unauthorized entries into Germany, a 63 percent increase over the previous year and the highest level since 2017, according to the Federal Police, according to the annual report of the Federal Police, which Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Federal Police President Dieter Romann plan to present in Berlin. It is available to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
The increase is also likely to have to do with the start of the Corona pandemic in 2020. Due to travel restrictions and flight cancellations, significantly fewer asylum seekers than usual arrived in Germany for months. Starting in August 2021, more migrants also arrived in Germany via Belarus to eastern EU states, according to the report. The EU accuses the ruler there, Alexander Lukashenko, of bringing migrants from crisis regions to the EU’s external border in an organized manner.
Irregular internal migration between EU states also played a role, according to the report, particularly from Greece. According to the report, people recognized as refugees in Greece traveled by plane to Germany to reapply for asylum here. According to the Federal Police, on peak days more than 100 people were found to be proceeding in this way. About half of the unauthorized entrants apprehended by the federal police at the borders came from Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, according to the report.
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