An original translation from Die Welt:
Every Single Person Is Scanned
Denmark Drastically Tightens Controls At German Border
December 23, 2017
In 2016, Denmark has introduced controls at the German border, because of the refugee crisis. Since September it even deploys armed soldiers. Now, the country tightens its border controls once again. Each single car is examined.
Denmark tightens the controls at the German border. The measure is part of the budget that parliament in Copenhagen adopted Friday evening.
Automatic license plate scanners will be installed at all border checkpoints. At the five large checkpoints Frøslev, Padborg, Kruså and the ferry terminals Rødby and Gedser, additional control huts will be established, according to the Danish news agency Ritzau.
At the other checkpoints, there will be sample checks with a patrol car, but, if necessary, also with civilian cars and from air. Denmark had tightened the controls at the German borders in January 2016 because of increasing numbers of refugees. The emphasis used to lay on the five large checkpoints.
Since late September, armed soldiers are deployed, to disencumber police. In October, the government extended the controls until at least May 12. Reasoning: risk of terror. The Danish government announced that they saw a risk in rejected asylum seekers from Germany.
Syrian Asylum Seeker Was Planning An Attack
Currently, Danish police have arrested a Syrian asylum seeker under terror suspicion, according to their statement, he and another Syrian who was convicted in Germany were planning an attack in Copenhagen. Police announce that the 30-year-old was apprehended in cooperation with the Danish intelligence service.
He and his 21-year-old accomplice wanted to “attack [people] with knives and after that, detonate one or multiple explosive devices” in November 2016 in Copenhagen. Their plan failed when Danish authorities refused entry to the younger of the two, and Danish police arrested him.

Denmark is bordered by Southern Sweden in the northeast, and Northern Germany to the south.


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