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Austria warns of using force to ease migrant rush
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Austria may have to use force to ease any backlog of migrants if Germany decided to no longer let them enter via their shared border, but will continue to work closely with its neighbor to expedite the flow, the Vienna government said yesterday.
Germany has re-imposed border controls and curbed rail traffic from Austria in an effort to slow an influx of migrants, thousands of whom reach its territory daily. By contrast, Austria is largely letting migrants stream onto its soil from Hungary unhindered and shuttling them toward Germany.
Asked by a reporter what would happen if Germany “seals the border”, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said: “Then there will be a massive backlog here in Austria and therefore here we quickly need a European answer.
“Otherwise there will consequently be only two possibilities: either we carry on as until now, or there will be strict controls at the borders,” she said before a Cabinet meeting. “But then we must presume that images of force will emerge, that the use of force will be necessary.”
Germany’s suspension of regular traffic on one major rail link with Austria has prompted many migrants to cross the frontier by other means. Hundreds line up at a crossing near the Austrian city of Salzburg each day.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has emphasized the importance of coordinating with Germany on the matter, even though the neighbors have not always acted in unison in the crisis triggered by an unrelenting influx into the European Union this year of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa
German Austrian announcements of border controls more than two weeks ago, for example, were made days apart.
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