[NEWSWEEK] A former German justice minister has cast doubt on the ability of Angela Merkel...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as
Mom...
's government to deport migrant criminals, as the country faces mounting violence in the wake of sex attacks committed by immigrants.
Germany's current justice minister Heiko Maas today announced that the government would "tighten criminal law to make deportation easier," the BBC reports. Chancellor Angela Merkel last week said her government would review Germany's ability to expel foreign criminals following a national outcry over sex attacks which took place in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Police now say the majority of the perpetrators were most likely immigrants.
But Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a member of the centrist Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as justice minister from 2009-2013 when her party was in coalition with Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), tells Newsweek deporting such offenders may not be a workable solution.
" We cannot deport people [for example] from Syria back to Syria," she says, "because there they could be the victim of bombs and others... I think it will not work in practice."
| Send 'em to Turkey, then. You're already paying Turkey to keep them. Or build prisons on Devil's Island and other remote spots, then offer the choice of staying there or going back to Syria, etc. Bottom line, immigrants who choose to prey on the citizenry are not entitled to continue in either location or activity. |
Germany is reeling not just from the attacks in Cologne, but from the spate of far-right and vigilante violence they have provoked. In Leipzig on Monday, as 2,000 supporters of Legida, an offshoot of the anti-Islam group Pegida, marched through the city peacefully, a group of far-right holy warriors and football hooligans embarked on an orgy of violence. They vandalised buildings and burned vehicles. Police have made at least 211 arrests in connection with the violence, according to the BBC.
