Why?
This question arises after every accident.
There isn't always an answer.
There isn't always someone to blame.
But every crime has a perpetrator – and a victim.
It can also have a political dimension.
Why was the knife murderer who stabbed two young people aged 17 and 19 and seriously injured others still in Germany?
The stateless Palestinian, who applied for asylum in 2015, had committed multiple crimes, each time with a knife.
Unfortunately, he served the mild as usual sentence of last one year in custody.
Determination is sorely needed
Perhaps no one could have guessed that he would keep stabbing.
But it could have been ensured long ago that Germany, as the traffic light coalition likes to claim, quickly deports violent offenders like this despite all the welcome culture.
Where is the will for effective repatriation if effective border controls are already being dispensed with?
You can also be deported to the well-funded Palestinian territories.
If you want your own state, you have to stand by your wrongdoers.
If deportation is not possible, the population here must be protected from threats.
Not only this knife murderer shows that you can also spread terror without belonging to a terrorist group.
The background needs to be clarified, including the origin, regardless of whether the perpetrator's name is Prince Heinrich or Ibrahim.
Every environment has its characteristics.
The outrage that has now been expressed politically at the crime, the national mourning over those who were stabbed and the demand for a speedy investigation are as understandable as they are helpless.
But instead of acknowledging the failure of the open-door policy, it keeps opening up.
Early and generous distribution of passports creates many new Germans, but neither peace nor integration.
At least determination is now being demonstrated in foreign policy.
Not even that in migration policy. But it is sorely needed.