Scholz promised to tighten Germany’s immigration policy after the Mannheim massacre
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to tighten migration policy by changing the rules for deportation from Germany. Now glorification and public support of terrorism can become grounds for expulsion from the country. Scholz’s statement followed the outcry over the video of the massacre in Mannheim.
Anyone who glorifies terrorism is against all our values and should be deported
During his speech before the Bundestag, Scholz also notedthat Germany will make it possible to deport for serious crimes to countries such as Afghanistan and Syria. Previously, deportation to these countries was impossible, since Germany recognized the political situation in these states is too dangerous for such measures.
Last week, an Afghan migrant attacked protesters in Mannheim with a knife.
May 31, 25-year-old from Afghanistan committed attack on participants in an anti-Islamist rally of the Pax Europa movement in the city of Mannheim. He stabbed six people, including a police officer, and was then shot dead by law enforcement.
A 29-year-old police officer tried to detain the alleged criminal, but mistakenly grabbed a man who was defending himself from the attacker.
The recording, which has spread on social networks, shows: at the moment when a policeman is twisting an innocent man, an armed man inflicts several stab wounds to the distracted policeman in the head area
Immediately after the attack, the victim done An emergency operation was performed and he was put into an artificial coma, but the police officer could not be saved.
Conservative politician and Islamist critic Michael Stürzenberger was also injured during the massacre. According to Bild, the criminal first wounded his. Passers-by tried to detain the attacker, but he escaped from their hands and attacked a policeman.
After the attack in the city there was announced 14 days of mourning.
On June 5, an attack occurred again in Mannheim. An unknown person stabbed an Alternative for Germany politician.
Mannheim massacre sparks deportation debate
After the attacks from the German Chancellor started demand a review of migration policy and the introduction of measures, including tougher deportation rules.
After the attack in Mannheim, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Feser expressed the intention to clarify “as soon as possible” the issue of whether serious criminals with an Afghan passport can be deported. She advocated that “people who pose a potential threat to the security of Germany” be deported as quickly as possible.
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In his speech to the Bundestag, Scholz said that the German Interior Ministry is already negotiating with Afghanistan’s neighbors about carrying out deportations in practice. At the same time, coordination of this issue with Afghanistan itself, where the Taliban now rules (terrorist organization banned in Russia) could cause difficulties for Germany. German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock wondered question: “How can we cooperate with an Islamist terrorist regime with which we have no relationship at all?”
The Minister of the Interior of the state of Thuringia Georg Mayer responded to these concerns brought the example of Pakistan, which is also opposed to the current government of Afghanistan, but deports to this country those who pose a threat to national security.
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