ECCHR Berlin 191d ago

At the ECCHR we have been working on the disregard of the law at European borders for the past 10 years. And with the disregard of the law comes increasing violence which we have witnessed. At the European parliament, Hanaa Hakiki, directress of ECCHR's border justice program, on the filing of a case against Germany challenging an unlawful, violent and racially motivated border control at the French-German border. Background: In June 2025, Alloush was on a train headed to Germany for a work trip. Shortly after the train crossed the border from France, officers came on board. Alloush showed her French residency permit and a document confirming the renewal of her passport. Officers insisted she could not enter without a passport. She was forced off the train, taken to a police station where officers used violence, strip searched, detained, and ultimately made her walk back to France. EU law says that border controls within Schengen may only be re-introduced as an exceptional measure. But Germany has kept permanent border controls on all of its borders since September 2024 although their justifications are not backed up by the available federal police statistics. Sandra Alloush filed the case at the Administrative Court in Stuttgart with the support of the ECCHR, @Freiheitsrechteand @ENARtube. Read more about the case: https://www.ecchr.eu/fall/germanys-border-controls-erode-core-eu-rights/ Would you like to receive regular updates on our case work? Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://www.ecchr.eu/en/newsletter-subscription/