Germany to set up border controls for the UEFA Euro 2024

Germany will introduce temporary controls at all its borders for the European Football Championship this summer, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told the Rheinische Post newspaper on Tuesday, Report informs via DW.

The measures come in the wake of the terror attack in Moscow on Friday.

"We will carry out temporary border controls at all German borders during the tournament in order to prevent possible perpetrators of violence from entering the country," Faeser told the newspaper.

"This is necessary to provide the best possible protection for this major international event," added the minister.

Faeser said border control would focus on the threat of Islamist terrorism, extremists, hooligans and other violent criminals. Measures will also include network security against cyberattacks.

A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry on Monday said German security authorities have not made any changes to their security assessment of the terrorism threat to Germany in the wake of the Moscow attack, adding that their threat assessment is ongoing.

Faeser explained that the threat of Islamist terror was already high before the current attack and remains so now.

Germany, however, does not issue terror alert levels like other countries do.