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our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online
  
    

Holzkirchen, Germany (dpa) – The German federal police vowed Tuesday
to send 850 additional officers to the southern state of Bavaria,
where regional government criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s lax
refugee policy has caused a rift among her ruling coalition.

The additional personnel would be used to guard the border to Austria
and help with the registration of migrants crossing into Germany from
the south, a police spokesman said in Munich.

Two new police stations were also set up in the border towns of
Freilassing and Kempten, the spokesman said, confirming an earlier
announcement by a Christian Socialist Union (CSU) politician.

Merkel‘s liberal approach to the refugee crisis has sparked tensions
in her governing coalition, especially among her Bavarian CSU allies,
who have been calling for stricter border controls for weeks.

Bavaria has been the first point of entry for most migrants heading
to Germany via southern Europe in recent months.

 



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