Danger: Federal states are preparing deportations to Syria

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Around 90 people with a Syrian passport who are trusted by the police to carry out attacks live in Germany.

Some are in jail - but dozens of them are not.

How to deal with them has been discussed for years.

Now there is movement.

According to research by WELT AM SONNTAG, several federal states are preparing for the possibility of deportations to Syria.

The background to this is that the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK) decided to expire the general ban on deportations to Syria at the end of 2020.

It had previously been renewed nine times.

“Wherever legally and actually possible, we do everything possible to get such people out of the country.

And that must also apply to people who come to us from Syria, ”said Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU).

Germany would have to leave those "who are dangerous, unteachable, not integrable or particularly conspicuous".

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Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) has a similar opinion: "People who commit serious crimes in our country or appear as threats cannot expect that they will find protection and refuge with us." To avoid deportations only because diplomatic relations about the Assad regime is missing, can hardly be communicated.

According to Herrmann, there must be no “carte blanche” that one does not have to expect deportation when committing criminal offenses.

The federal government sees Assad as responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands during the civil war.

He did not hesitate to use barrel bombs and poison gas.

The Federal Foreign Office continues to rate the humanitarian situation as "catastrophic".

The trigger for the IMK's decision was ultimately a knife attack in Dresden.

At the beginning of October 2020, an Islamist threat attacked two tourists there.

One of the two men died.

The second victim survived seriously injured.

The alleged perpetrator, 20-year-old Syrian Abdullah AHH, is in custody.

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Saxony's Interior Minister Roland Wöller (CDU) advocates establishing contact with the Syrian government via Jordan or Lebanon.

He considers it necessary to carry out individual deportations there.

Threats and serious criminals in Germany should not be protected from this.

"The population must be protected as best as possible from people who are a threat to our peaceful and free society," says Wöller.

Schleswig-Holstein's Minister of the Interior, Sabine Sütterlin-Waack (CDU), has asked the immigration authorities to “submit any cases in which a specific possibility of deportation to Syria should then be presented to the Ministry of the Interior for preliminary examination”.

That means: The authorities should already prepare the cases that come into question for deportations - and make them practically “paper-ready”.

Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) is also having a look at the cases in which “there is a special need for prioritized deportation”.

His house wants to "push this forward" as far as possible in coordination with the responsible federal authorities.

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The Union-led internal departments in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saarland and Saxony-Anhalt are still examining what follows from the IMK decision.

Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) had already announced that each case would be checked carefully and that he would try to make deportations possible now - if an Islamist poses a particularly high risk, the federal government can take over and initiate a deportation.

The SPD, however, does not see any requirements for deportations.

It is true that Boris Pistorius from Lower Saxony, the spokesman for the SPD-led interior ministries, has “a great interest in successfully completing the necessary deportations” in his country.

But after Syria this is not possible because there is torture and murder there every day.

Therefore, Pistorius demands that the Federal Ministry of the Interior must negotiate more with states and exert pressure on those to which people can actually be deported, but which are not willing to cooperate.

Not a single EU state is deporting to Syria.

While the Minister of Integration in North Rhine-Westphalia, Joachim Stamp (FDP), is open to deportations to Syria, the Green Ministers in Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia strictly reject this.

This text is from WELT AM SONNTAG.

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Source: WELT AM SONNTAG