MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Speaking after a cabinet meeting chaired by Chancellor Angela Merkel, de Maiziere stressed that moving groups of migrants to the Bavarian border and letting them cross over by themselves without warning German authorities in advance was not "how it is done among friends."
"It is important that…we return to the orderly [border control] measures, and I think it will be the case," the minister said, adding that Austria’s behavior had not been "in order" in the past few days.
Thousands of refugees, most of them from Syria and Afghanistan, have been entering through Germany’s southeastern region of Bavaria every night, putting additional pressure on local authorities.
Over 200,000 refugees arrived in Bavaria in September, which depleted the state's resources for receiving migrants, according to the Bavarian authorities.
