Czech police chasing a vanload of migrants fired warning shots on Thursday as they began checks on the border with Slovakia to combat a sharp rise in people, mostly Syrians, heading illegally to western Europe.
Police intercepted over 100 migrants and detained nine suspected people smugglers as they began checks on all 27 road and rail entry points and on patrols outside frontier crossings.
Over 500 police officers will deploy on the 252-km border, initially for 10 days. The Czech decision was followed by Austria, which also started checks on Thursday on its border with Slovakia."The aim is to give smugglers' groups a clear sign that they face a barrier here," Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said at a briefing during a visit to the border shortly after midnight.
Syrian Khaled Cheiko, 26, said at the station that he felt rising racism in Turkey, where he had lived the past six years, and now wanted to go to Britain.
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