Deport the fuckers never mind "strip them of refugee status" .....idiots politically correct Libertards
Reports as early as 2016 showed that asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon had been using German taxpayer cash to holiday in their home countries
BERLIN — Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has announced plans to potentially strip Syrians who go back home on holiday of their asylum status, reasoning that those who can regularly travel back to their country cannot seriously claim that they are being persecuted.
“We have to deprive them of their refugee status,” Seehofer told the Kronen Zeitung, an Austrian newspaper, explaining that they are also monitoring the situation inside Syria. “If the situation permits, we will carry out repatriations.”
The news of refugees vacationing in the countries where they allegedly fled persecution is not new. According to Breitbart, reports as early as 2016 showed that asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon had been using German taxpayer cash to fund vacations in their home countries.
Syrian asylum seeker and blogger Aras Bacho posted on Twitter that he knew six Syrians who travelled back home to visit their families and “have some rest from Germany.” He then complained that he was unable to go back because “something very important got in the way.” “I hope to catch up very soon during the holidays. Germany is very stressful and you need some kind of break,” he wrote in July.
The announcement comes as Germany ranks in international studies as one of the safest, most peaceful countries in the world. Overall crime has declined for the better part of a decade, and statistics show that Germans have relatively few reasons to feel insecure.
Yet, since June, a series of crimes — some violent and seemingly random, some targeted and political; some by migrants, and some aimed at them — have jangled nerves and amplified a sense of a nation straining at the seams.
The extent of German unease came to the fore of public debate last month after a man shoved a boy and his mother in front of an oncoming train in Frankfurt’s central station in broad daylight at the height of the summer travel season. She managed to roll to safety; her 8-year-old son was crushed to death.
In the online discussion after the boy’s death, Frankfurt police said on Twitter that the suspect was African, prompting an immediate outcry from members of the far-right, nationalist Alternative for Germany party, usually referred to by its German-language initials, AfD.
Security and immigration are key issues for AfD, and its members have condemned Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision four years ago to allow more than 1 million migrants into the country as a threat to public stability.
“Protect the citizens of our country for once and for all instead of this open-door ‘welcome culture,’” Alice Weidel, a leader of the party, wrote on Twitter after the boy died on July 29.
The suspect arrested, however, was not a beneficiary of Merkel’s migration policy, nor even a resident of Germany.
The man, identified only as Habte A., was a 40-year-old Eritrean who had been living, working and supporting a family in Switzerland for more than a decade, according to police there. They had been looking for him, they said, because he had vanished after threatening neighbours in Zurich who thought he had psychological problems.
Germans are feeling that they cannot stop time and remain in the protective bubble of prosperity that has been Germany of the past decade
He remains in custody in Frankfurt, where he faces charges of murder and attempted murder.
While the case might have been treated as a tragedy born of mental illness, it set off a fevered round of anxiety in a society that prizes order and consensus but is increasingly politically polarized.
At a memorial service outside the train station, far-right supporters denouncing immigrants shouted at a crowd of hundreds who had gathered to honor the boy. The situation remained peaceful, but tense.
Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer, responded by cutting short his summer vacation to huddle with his top security advisers in Berlin.
“The sense of security among people is very fraught, and incidents like that in Frankfurt contribute to it,” Seehofer told reporters after the meeting. He promised to increase security at train stations and to institute “intelligent” checks at the border with Switzerland.
“We have experienced a few things in recent weeks,” he added, without elaborating.
Experts point out, however, that such measures may do little to combat the roots of the nation’s anxiety, which lie much deeper in the German psyche and are linked to more intangible fears based in the past.
“Big disasters that happen in other places don’t happen in Germany,” said Ortwin Renn, director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam and a researcher in risk studies. “It’s all pretty benign compared to other parts of the world.
“But throughout history, because of the many catastrophes, Germans are more sensitive,” he added, referring obliquely to World War II and the nation’s devastation and capitulation. ”There is a higher tension and fear that something bad could happen.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...ians-who-go-home-on-holiday-of-refugee-status
Reports as early as 2016 showed that asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon had been using German taxpayer cash to holiday in their home countries
BERLIN — Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has announced plans to potentially strip Syrians who go back home on holiday of their asylum status, reasoning that those who can regularly travel back to their country cannot seriously claim that they are being persecuted.
“We have to deprive them of their refugee status,” Seehofer told the Kronen Zeitung, an Austrian newspaper, explaining that they are also monitoring the situation inside Syria. “If the situation permits, we will carry out repatriations.”
The news of refugees vacationing in the countries where they allegedly fled persecution is not new. According to Breitbart, reports as early as 2016 showed that asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon had been using German taxpayer cash to fund vacations in their home countries.
Syrian asylum seeker and blogger Aras Bacho posted on Twitter that he knew six Syrians who travelled back home to visit their families and “have some rest from Germany.” He then complained that he was unable to go back because “something very important got in the way.” “I hope to catch up very soon during the holidays. Germany is very stressful and you need some kind of break,” he wrote in July.
The announcement comes as Germany ranks in international studies as one of the safest, most peaceful countries in the world. Overall crime has declined for the better part of a decade, and statistics show that Germans have relatively few reasons to feel insecure.
Yet, since June, a series of crimes — some violent and seemingly random, some targeted and political; some by migrants, and some aimed at them — have jangled nerves and amplified a sense of a nation straining at the seams.
The extent of German unease came to the fore of public debate last month after a man shoved a boy and his mother in front of an oncoming train in Frankfurt’s central station in broad daylight at the height of the summer travel season. She managed to roll to safety; her 8-year-old son was crushed to death.
In the online discussion after the boy’s death, Frankfurt police said on Twitter that the suspect was African, prompting an immediate outcry from members of the far-right, nationalist Alternative for Germany party, usually referred to by its German-language initials, AfD.
Security and immigration are key issues for AfD, and its members have condemned Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision four years ago to allow more than 1 million migrants into the country as a threat to public stability.
“Protect the citizens of our country for once and for all instead of this open-door ‘welcome culture,’” Alice Weidel, a leader of the party, wrote on Twitter after the boy died on July 29.
The suspect arrested, however, was not a beneficiary of Merkel’s migration policy, nor even a resident of Germany.
The man, identified only as Habte A., was a 40-year-old Eritrean who had been living, working and supporting a family in Switzerland for more than a decade, according to police there. They had been looking for him, they said, because he had vanished after threatening neighbours in Zurich who thought he had psychological problems.
Germans are feeling that they cannot stop time and remain in the protective bubble of prosperity that has been Germany of the past decade
He remains in custody in Frankfurt, where he faces charges of murder and attempted murder.
While the case might have been treated as a tragedy born of mental illness, it set off a fevered round of anxiety in a society that prizes order and consensus but is increasingly politically polarized.
At a memorial service outside the train station, far-right supporters denouncing immigrants shouted at a crowd of hundreds who had gathered to honor the boy. The situation remained peaceful, but tense.
Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer, responded by cutting short his summer vacation to huddle with his top security advisers in Berlin.
“The sense of security among people is very fraught, and incidents like that in Frankfurt contribute to it,” Seehofer told reporters after the meeting. He promised to increase security at train stations and to institute “intelligent” checks at the border with Switzerland.
“We have experienced a few things in recent weeks,” he added, without elaborating.
Experts point out, however, that such measures may do little to combat the roots of the nation’s anxiety, which lie much deeper in the German psyche and are linked to more intangible fears based in the past.
“Big disasters that happen in other places don’t happen in Germany,” said Ortwin Renn, director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam and a researcher in risk studies. “It’s all pretty benign compared to other parts of the world.
“But throughout history, because of the many catastrophes, Germans are more sensitive,” he added, referring obliquely to World War II and the nation’s devastation and capitulation. ”There is a higher tension and fear that something bad could happen.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...ians-who-go-home-on-holiday-of-refugee-status
