German police stopped more than 50 extremists at the Polish border

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Border Police / Photo: PETRAS MALUKAS / AFP / Profimedia

German police say they have stopped more than 50 right-wing extremists armed with tear gas, bayonets, machetes and batons who wanted to patrol along the Polish border to prevent migrants from entering the country.

The extremists followed a call by Third Way, an extreme right-wing party suspected of being linked to neo-Nazi groups, for its members to stop illegal crossings near the town of Guben on the German-Polish border.

- The police confiscated their weapons and forced them to leave the Guben area late on Saturday night and in the early hours of Sunday, said a spokesman.

Some suspects came to the Polish border from other parts of Germany.

Dozens of people gathered in Guben on Saturday to oppose planned right-wing patrols.

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Germany had deployed an additional 800 police officers at the Polish border to control the flow of migrants trying to enter the EU from Belarus.

Source: MIA

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