The interior minister confirmed plans to deport criminals to Syria, despite security concerns expressed by the Foreign Office. “German security interests are my top priority. We want to consistently deport Islamists in particular,” Nancy Faeser (SPD) told Bild am Sonntag.
Safety concerns
The minister added that “confidential negotiations are underway with various countries to make deportations to Afghanistan and Syria possible again.” Syrians and Afghans should therefore be deported to their homelands by neighboring countries: “Anyone who has no right to stay in Germany must leave our country much more quickly.”
The Foreign Office, headed by Annalena Baerbock (Greens), still sees security problems in Syria. “Fighting of varying intensity continues in all parts of Syria. In addition, there are credible reports of some of the most serious human rights violations, including torture and executions, which have also affected returnees in the past,” it quotes newspaper document of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a result, the United Nations still considers that “the conditions for the safe return of refugees have not been met.”
CDU in Thuringia: Deport not only criminals
Meanwhile, CDU chairman in Thuringia Mario Voigt is calling for more than just criminals to be deported to Syria. “People who have no prospects of staying in Germany must also be expelled,” his party's top candidate in the state elections on September 1 told Stern magazine.
“We can no longer take everyone from Syria as before,” says the CDU leader in Thuringia: “And we have to deport people to Syria again.” According to Mario Voigt, this should not only apply to criminals: “People who have no prospects of staying in Germany must also be sent back.”
“Judge each person individually”
Politician The CDU referred to the decision of the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia, which recently rejected application Syrian criminal for refugee status: “The Court rightly found that there is no serious and general threat to life and health in Syria. It is therefore absolutely inappropriate to continue to grant Syrian refugees blanket subsidiary protection.” Instead, he said, each case should be assessed individually, as for any other asylum seeker.
Marco Voigt called the German government to “start a dialogue with the Assad regime, together with other EU countries”. The coalition should finally “recognize reality”, he stressed.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has also been taking a tougher tone on migration for weeks. In September, state elections will be held in three eastern states, where the anti-immigration parties AfD and BSW are doing well in in polls. Thuringia and Saxony vote on September 1, Brandenburg on September 22.
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The article comes from the website German Welle