Failures at airports across Germany. The problem is with computer systems. According to Reuters, a federal police spokesperson indicated that all operations would have to be carried out manually. As the head of Germany’s federal police union has pointed out, this situation poses a “threat to the entire European Schengen system.”
Computer systems operated by federal police at airports across the country stopped functioning. A spokesperson for the service responsible for Frankfurt Airport commented on the matter in an interview with Bild.
“Our colleagues have to manually do a lot of things that systems used to do, and we’re still doing that,” he said.
Germany. System failure occurs at airports nationwide
German media say the disruption has affected the systems used for immigration-related procedures.
Technical problems caused long lines at the ports of Cologne, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. Some delays were also reported at Munich Airport.
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A Berlin Airport spokesperson told Reuters that passengers traveling to Germany from outside the Schengen area should expect long waits to enter the country. The same goes for Düsseldorf.
A representative of Frankfurt Airport said that airport operations were carried out without delay. No entry bans were imposed at any airport.
Paralyzed at a German airport. “It was just a matter of time.”
– It was only a matter of time before something like today happened. This now poses a threat to Europe’s entire Schengen system, Heiko Tegatz, president of the Federal Police Union, said in an interview with Bild.
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The media’s interlocutor added that there has been a lack of funds for the modernization of IT infrastructure for three years. He noted that the union had unsuccessfully sought a response from the Home Office. “(Nancy) Feiser has consistently ignored this,” he said.
So far, the cause of the failure has not been determined.
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