Last year, The Lord Mayor of Frankfurt an der Oder, René Wilke announced that he had ordered the deportation of some 20 Syrians already known to law enforcement. “I’m not waiting until the first casualty,” he said at the time.
This was preceded by an attack on the music club Frosch in the university town on the border with Poland. The group of foreigners was armed with iron bars and knives. The perpetrators were said to have called out during the attack “Allah – we will stab you all!”.
But in his plan to expel several refugees from Syria, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories, all charged with serious crimes, Wilke is now facing his first setback. The first of seven expulsion proceedings has ended in favor of the accused, reported broadcaster Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb).
The procedure led by the Frankfurt Foreigners’ Office has shown that in this case, keeping migrants in the country outweighs expulsion. Accordingly, it was argued that the crime committed by the asylum-seeker was not so severe as to justify his deportation. In two further proceedings, however, the city expects that the expulsion of the criminal aliens will go ahead.
Meanwhile, issuing a request to hide rejected asylum seekers will lead to no disciplinary consequences for twelve professors in Baden-Württemberg. The Ministry of Science led by the Greens and the universities concerned, rated their call as “non-official behavior”, according to the Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
In the summer of 2017, the professors, naming their titles and universities, signed the so-called Freiburg Declaration, demanding a right of residence for asylum seekers. They also demanded that migrants ordered to leave the country should go into hiding to prevent their deportation. This punishable offense was dubbed a “citizen’s asylum”.
The professors concerned teach at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, the University of Education in Freiburg, the Protestant University of Freiburg and the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Villingen-Schwenningen. Lecturers from other academic institutions have also signed the law-breaking Freiburg Declaration.
The domestic spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, Daniel Rottmann, denounced the Declaration as a scandal, noting “how calmly officials in this country can support offenses publicly and under attribution”. The circle of signatories, who “in the education sector as multipliers green-green world images raging against our legal order”, is supported by Minister of Economic Affairs Theresia Bauer (Greens).