A Berlin court ruled on June 2 that turning back asylum seekers at Germany’s borders is unlawful, dealing a blow to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative-led coalition, which has vowed to impose border controls.
The court ruled in favor of three unnamed Somali applicants—two men and one woman—who were sent back to Poland from a train station in the eastern city of Frankfurt an der Oder, on Germany’s border, on the grounds that they had attempted to enter from a safe third country, according to a court statement.
