More than 1,500 applicants have reapplied for asylum in Germany since border controls were tightened in May this year, despite having previously been denied entry or asylum.
Smugglers on the French coast are exploiting a brief break in bad weather, helping to push this year’s UK total for known migrant arrivals past 40,000.
Despite his asylum claim being rejected without appeal earlier this year, a Lebanese national was moving freely until he was detained at Aachen Station.
