For a week now, during the European Football Championship, attention has also been paid to fans with a potential for violence on Saxony's borders with Poland and the Czech Republic. Up to and including 19 June, officers are also being made aware of fans with a potential for violence and possible troublemakers "who we want to keep away from the stadiums" during the stationary checks reintroduced in October 2023, said a spokesperson for the Pirna Federal Police Directorate on Thursday in response to an inquiry.
Football travel will also be monitored on the rail route from Prague to Dresden and at Erfurt and Magdeburg train stations, as well as at Dresden, Leipzig-Halle and Erfurt airports. Additional forces will only be deployed there.
"We are checking travel intentions to see whether people have become conspicuous in the police system and in the past," said the spokesperson. The authorities have the legal means to terminate journeys and turn people back at the border. Traffic jams due to delays, especially when entering the country, cannot be ruled out, "but we can react."
