Then I get data on Polish criminals from Kathlen Zink from the Saxon police press office. Conclusion: there are much more thefts of passenger cars and other vehicles than before Poland joined the Schengen area and the abolition of border controls (recently, they have reappeared randomly – due to illegal migration).
Before our country joined Schengen in December 2007, between 18 and 65 Polish car thieves were caught in Saxony every year (I got data from the beginning of this century), most of them in 2006. In recent years, from 149 to 273. Poles steal not only cars. Last year, 681 shoplifters were caught in Saxony.
Poles also smuggle migrants. In 2023, the police recorded 33 cases
Lutz Jankus, one of the AfD leaders in Görlitz, the capital of the district where Ostritz is located, admits in an interview with “Rzeczpospolita” that the issue of Polish car thieves is of interest to voters in this city, but the problem of migrant smuggling across the Polish border has become more important.
And he gives a new example of a 42-year-old Ukrainian woman who lived in Poland. Saxon media called her a “top smuggler.” In mid-August, a court in Görlitz sentenced her to three years and two months in prison for helping at least 117 illegal immigrants reach Germany. Most of the six transports took place in life-threatening conditions, they were so packed that they had no air. She once smuggled 26 Syrians in a van, the prosecutor said.
In February, the same court heard the case of a Ukrainian who smuggled around 60 people, mainly Syrians, in three transports. For each of the three courses, he was supposed to receive just 1,000 euros from an undisclosed client.
