MUNICH
\nGerman Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is facing allegations that the numbers of refugees arriving in Germany since the start of the year have been manipulated, local media reports have said.
\nSaturday\u2019s reports said that while Faeser claims only 57,647 refugees have entered German territory, the federal police have registered 101,900 foreigners since January.
\nThe data of the federal police covers merely four different regions of Germany – Berlin, Munich, Pirna and Stuttgart.
\nIn fact, the actual numbers are thought to be significantly higher as a result of a lack of data from other regions of Germany.
\nFederal police union boss Heiko Teggatz told Germany\u2019s top-selling Bild newspaper that the much higher figures from the federal police \u201creflected exactly what my colleagues have been telling me for months.\u201d
\nThe Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has counted 154,557 people who have applied for asylum since the beginning of the year.
\nThat is even 2.7 times more than the Ministry of the Interior reports in its internal Migration Analysis Report.
\nFaeser was recently criticised for not providing the Federal Police with the Migration Analysis Report for October.
\nThe numbers only go through September. It is speculated that they have jumped again in the past month.
\nLast month, Faeser had expressed concern about the increased number of migrants entering Germany via the so-called Balkan route.
\nShe said it worried her, because the asylum seekers would have to be accommodated in Germany in addition to the approximately one million refugees from Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUNICH German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is facing allegations that the numbers of refugees arriving in Germany since the start of the year have been manipulated, local media reports have said. Saturday\u2019s reports said that while Faeser claims only 57,647 refugees have entered German territory, the federal police have registered 101,900 foreigners since January. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n