Germany's interior minister says border rejections up 45% in a week

NAMPA / DPA
2025-05-15
Munich (dpa) - The number of people turned away at the German border has risen by almost half since controls were tightened a week ago. Germany's new interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said on Thursday that police had turned back 739 people at the border in the past seven days, a rise of 45% on the previous week, when 511 were denied entry. Dobrindt was speaking during a visit to the checkpoint on the A93 motorway on the Bavarian-Austrian bor......
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