Sunday 4th July 2021
“Right to asylum forfeited”
Giffey: Deport criminals to Syria
Former Federal Family Minister Giffey calls for consistent deportations to Afghanistan or Syria if migrants living in Germany have committed serious crimes. These cases would have to be viewed more from the victim’s perspective.
The Berlin SPD top candidate Franziska Giffey has spoken out in favor of consistent deportation of serious crimes to Afghanistan or Syria. “I am very clear: Serious criminals and terrorist threats must be deported,” said the former Federal Family Minister of “Bild am Sonntag”.
“If people flee from war and destruction, we have to help them,” said the SPD politician. “But those who commit serious crimes, who rap or murder people, have forfeited their right to asylum.” Then “the protection of the population living here is to be valued more highly than the protection of a person who tramples on the rights of others”. Such cases would have to be viewed “more from the perspective of the victims,” demanded Giffey.
“Knife attack in Würzburg is a big shock”
As a consequence of the knife attack in Würzburg a week ago, Giffey called for more sensitivity in dealing with asylum seekers who had become suspicious. “The knife attack in Würzburg is a great shock, which again leads to some people losing faith in security and integration in Germany,” Giffey told the newspaper.
Such an act “never comes out of the blue”, but is “always the last part of a chain”. “The signs of radicalization or serious mental illness were either not seen or ignored,” criticized Giffey. “We cannot accept that. We have to become more sensitive and react faster.”
An asylum seeker from Somalia stabbed a total of ten people with a kitchen knife last Friday in a department store in Würzburg. Three women died. The investigators consider an Islamist background to be obvious. In addition, the 24-year-old had come to psychiatry several times because of various incidents.
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