A new Polish government decree has declared all border crossings with Germany to be critical infrastructure, meaning the areas are now under a ban on any photography, filming, and drone flights. This has led to outcries that Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to hide any evidence of Poland’s deal with Germany and how Poland’s neighbor is being allowed to dump migrants into Polish territory.
Confederation leader and deputy speaker of the Sejm, Krzysztof Bosak, took to X to voice his opposition, writes Do Rzeczy. “The decisions to ban drone flights near the border, to establish a ban on photographing border crossings, and the aggressive rhetoric towards Poles monitoring the situation at the border unfortunately form a coherent whole: the government wants to fight not against German abuses, but against Poles concerned about the situation,” he said.
Bosak has been actively making sure Poles know about the border situation and has been a vocal opponent of mass migration.
“This is an unwise decision — no one has ever won against the grassroots mobilization of Poles. The execution of these decisions will raise the level of social conflict and strengthen suspicions that the government is quietly capitulating to German pressure and abuses. And what is happening at the border cannot be hidden in the end anyway,” he wrote on X.
The Polish Army has deployed 5,000 soldiers to the border. 4,000 of them have been delegated to the Polish-German border, and 1,000 to the Polish-Lithuanian border. On the border with Germany, 52 border control points have been designated, 16 of which will have permanent controls. On the border with Lithuania, 13 control points have been designated, two of which will have permanent controls.
Nevertheless, citizen patrols have reported German police dumping migrants, with footage going viral on social media. Despite Poles from across the political spectrum joining these grassroots efforts, Tusk’s response has been to sharply criticize the conservative PIS party and the Confederation party, saying that they were encouraging “militias” at the German border, accusing them of “attacking” the Polish state.
Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Patryk Jaki posted a video on X in which he says that Prime Minister Donald Tusk is looking to remove any independent observers and cover up the government turning a blind eye to ongoing migrant dumping by Germany.
“First of all, he threatens Poles who, instead of spending their holidays with their own families, have organized themselves to defend our borders, i.e. our security, because they see – rightly – that Tusk has some strange deal with the Germans who are dumping migrants here,” Jaki said.
Referring to the ban on photography and filming at border crossing points, Jaki noted: “Tusk wants to use the power of the state to limit civic control and what they are doing there with the Germans.”
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