German police stop far-right vigilantes patrolling Polish border

FILE PHOTO: Police patrol as people gather during a vigil against the ultra-right so-called Der Dritte Weg (The Third Way), in Guben, Germany, October 23, 2021. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police said on Sunday they had stopped more than 50 far-right vigilantes armed with pepper spray, a bayonet, a machete and batons who were trying to patrol the Polish border to stop migrants from entering the country.

The vigilantes were following a call by the Third Way, a far right-party with suspected links to neo-Nazi groups, for its members to stop illegal crossings near the town of Guben on the German-Polish border.