His words come after as yet unverified reports that one of the Paris gunmen had posed as a refugee to gain entry to Europe via the Greek island of Leros.
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Under the plan, agreed by the previous government, Poland was to take in 4,500 refugees, over and above a few 2,000 it has already accepted.
The shifting mood could threaten European efforts to find unity on the migration crisis. “It will be more hard now” for the real refugees, he said. Abdul Selam, 31, who is fleeing Syria, said he fears refugees now “will be considered as probable attackers”. “The borders should encircle Europe from the outside”.
“I would like to invite those in Europe who are trying to change the migration agenda we have adopted…to be serious about this and not to give in to these basic reactions”.
“Immigrants who are out of control do not help security”.
Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders urged the government to close the Netherlands’ borders immediately, saying the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Rutte had been “turning away and denying” the obvious perils to the Dutch citizenry from the poorly controlled flow of Middle East migrants. Almost 400,000 migrants passed through Hungary this year.
“Until these are ended, we need to help them survive and be sheltered in our country”, said the 72-year-old.
Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Soeder had cranked up pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s to reverse her “open-door” refugee policy, saying the attacks in Paris underlined the need for tougher measures to control the influx of migrants.
Last month, Kaczynski warned migrants could spread diseases such as cholera, dysentery and “all sorts of parasites” which could “endanger local populations”.
Since Friday, members of the government have indicated that they will treat asylum-seekers as possible security threats, possibly not fulfilling the agreement to accept 7,000.
Szymanski has been nominated as a minister in Poland’s new conservative government to be sworn in on Monday. It’s therefore unlikely that the vast majority of Syrians fleeing to Europe are Isis supporters, since their actions are in obvious contravention of the group’s creed.
In an interview on Polish state television late Sunday, Waszczykowski also proposed helping Syrian arrivals in Europe form an army that could invade Syria.
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The French agency reported that Waszczykowski also said he was “trying to avoid a situation where we send our soldiers to fight in Syria while hundreds of thousands of Syrians drink their coffee in (Berlin’s) Unter den Linden boulevard or in other European cities”.
