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Union rates Maas’ assessment in terms of deportation stop “astonishing”
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“Checking if you can deport to Syria in pacified areas”
After the fatal knife attack in Dresden, Interior Minister Seehofer urges that the possibility of deportations to Syria be examined. “I will strongly advocate that we verify if one cannot deport Syria in the pacified areas.”
In the CDU, after the murder allegedly motivated by Islamists in Dresden, voices are growing against the ban on deportation to Syria. The basis for this is a status report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But it’s not just the coalition partner who is putting pressure on the SPD minister.
northFollowing the alleged Islamist assassination in Dresden, there is mounting pressure from the Union to lift the blanket ban on deportation to Syria, which applies to both serious criminals and dangerous Islamists. Mathias Middelberg, the national political spokesman for the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, told WELT: “The blanket ban on deportation to Syria should be lifted if possible under international law. The assessment of the situation by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Relations is decisive. The federal chancellor must finally look closely and differentiate himself, “said Middelberg.
“It is amazing when countries like Sweden and Denmark and also the EU asylum authority consider parts of Syria safe enough, but Mr Maas does not.” He asked the federal foreign minister to come up with a concept, such as “in view of the current German-Syrian situation, deportations can be carried out in a purely practical way in the medium term.”
The SPD, on the other hand, wants to stick to the ban on deportation. Ute Vogt, national policy spokesperson for the parliamentary group, told WELT: “The situation remains unsafe and life threatening. Therefore, the deportations to Syria are still not justifiable ”. This is how the Left Party also sees it. Her national policy spokesperson, Ulla Jelpke, said: “Syria is not safe, not even for criminals. There should be no deportations to this country. “Deportations” are never an adequate response to criminal offenses, because behind it is the absurd logic of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. The Islamism problem doesn’t go away when a perpetrator is deported, ”Jelpke said.
The leader of the AfD parliamentary group, Alice Weidel, disagrees. “All constitutional possibilities must be exhausted to deport Islamist threats and violent criminals as quickly as possible. German security authorities must check on a case-by-case basis whether deportations to Syria or parts of Syria are also possible. There should be no blanket detention of deportation, ”he said.
“Checking if you can deport to Syria in pacified areas”
After the fatal knife attack in Dresden, Interior Minister Seehofer urges that the possibility of deportations to Syria be examined. “I will strongly advocate that we verify if one cannot deport Syria in the pacified areas.”
Linda Teuteberg, a spokeswoman for immigration policy for the FDP, calls for the blanket ban on deportation “to be lifted as soon as the security situation stabilizes.” Criticizes: “The fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not been able to obtain its own image of the situation in the place since 2012 cannot be accepted in view of the fundamental nature of the deportation stop. If there is no concrete personal risk to life, limb or liberty after examination in an individual case, you must be deported. This is especially true for criminals and threats. The Federal Minister of the Interior and the Ministers of the Interior of the State are and will continue to be responsible here. “
The Foreign Ministry’s situation report is based on external sources
Syria is the only country for which the Federal Republic has decided to stop deportation completely. It was last extended in June until the end of the year. At the beginning of December, the Conference of Interior Ministers will decide on a new extension. The evaluation of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs constitutes the basis of the sentence.
However, since the embassy in Damascus was closed in 2012, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no longer been able to provide a regular picture of the situation and, in the absence of its own sources, has produced interim reports based on information from the UN, non-governmental organizations and other countries. According to these reports, there is extreme uncertainty in Syria. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) told WELT AM SONNTAG: “I will strongly advocate that we check whether it is not possible to deport to the pacified areas in Syria, but so far the assessment of the Foreign Ministry has been different.” .
Saxon Interior Minister Roland Wöller (CDU), on the other hand, spoke in favor of lifting the cap: the Dresden case clearly shows the limits of the rule of law. “Absolute security cannot be guaranteed by police means or the protection of the constitution despite all legally permitted measures because of the dangers emanating from these violent extremists.” Therefore, they would have to be deported or placed in preventive detention.
“The protection of our population is a clear priority. Therefore, there can no longer be a blanket ban on the deportation of endangered people and serious criminals in Syria ”. His colleagues from North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria had recently spoken out in favor of ending the ban.
The smallest opposition faction, the Greens, has always spoken out in favor of extending the blanket freeze on deportations to Syria. However, the party is not fundamentally against any deportation. So said its president, Robert Habeck WELT AM SONNTAG, who believes that it is “in principle a right to expel people in danger, that is, people who threaten our liberal order with violence, to their countries of origin.”
He noted that “many of the Islamist threats here are German citizens” and that deportations are not possible. In fact, only half of the more than 600 Islamist threats are foreign. The others have a German passport in addition to a foreign passport or only have German citizenship.
