First asylum-seekers turned back under new German border controls

NAMPA / DPA

2025-05-10

Trier, Germany (dpa) - The first asylum-seekers have been turned away from Germany under stricter border controls established this week by the country's new conservative-led government. Four Afghan nationals who entered the country from Luxembourg were turned away on Thursday, according to Stefan Döhn, spokesman for the federal police in the western city of Trier. The two women and two men had previously applied for asylum in Greece and were appr......

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