It is indeed the big question that Nancy Faeser asks: why are people who are as violent as Brokstedt's perpetrator still here in Germany at all?
The fact that the Federal Minister of the Interior asked the question is part of the answer.
If she doesn't know, then who does?
But maybe your party leader knows about the SPD, who, together with the FDP and the Greens, has made a sacred promise to consistently push ahead with the deportation of delinquent asylum seekers?
Or the leader of the opposition, whose party, the CDU, has promised the same thing for 16 years?
Or the state ministers who are responsible for repatriations?
The well-known dispute
It only took days after the bloody deed for the well-known dispute to start all over again.
What has it led to?
Not only does Germany fail to deport rejected asylum seekers.
Politicians no longer have that claim.
However, Germany is no longer even able to expel criminal migrants without a residence permit.
The reasons why this is so are always the same.
Are they really the only possible answer?
The responsible politicians should be aware that if they continue in this way, it is they themselves who will undermine their welcoming migration policies.
In Germany there is great sympathy for a generous asylum and refugee policy.
But not for one that has to decree national mourning at regular intervals.