Due to the growing number of illegal migrants, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria reintroduced temporary border checks with Slovakia this midnight, APA reports citing TASS.
They will remain in place for 10 days, says a source.
“Citizens need a valid passport or identity card to cross the border,” the Czech Interior Ministry said.
Poland’s Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński thinks that the announced border checks are very likely to be extended after October 13. He added that Poland has been patrolling the Slovak-Polish border and checking suspect vehicles in the past two weeks, during which 551 illegal migrants were detained.