Poland confronts Germany with taking back migrants at the border

The police car then immediately drove back to Germany, eyewitnesses quoted on the website said.

The migrants – two adults and three children – were arrested by Polish police and border guards who had been alerted by passers-by.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a message on social media website X that he would speak to his German counterpart Olaf Scholz “about an unacceptable incident between German police and a migrant family on our side of the border.”

“The matter needs to be explained in detail,” he added.

On Monday, the Polish border guard authority said it had contacted its German counterpart “to clarify the circumstances of the incident.”

The actions of the German police violate “the principles of cooperation between the two services and the law regulating the transfer of persons,” it said on X.

“The German authorities cannot make such decisions arbitrarily.”

Poland’s Deputy Interior Minister Czeslaw Mroczek said his country would “not tolerate such actions.”

“Everything must be done in accordance with the law and procedures,” Mroczek was quoted as saying by the Polish press agency.

Police officers from both countries were due to discuss the case on Tuesday.

The incident will also be discussed at a meeting between Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak and his German counterpart Nancy Faeser, a spokesman for the Polish ministry said.

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