Berlin

Some 17 000 refugees sue Germany for full protection

Published: October 19, 2016, 3:00 pm

    While the number of Syrians offered only subsidiary protection by BAMF has risen sharply since March, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that most of the more than 17 000 refugees that have sued German authorities for not receiving full refugee status in 2016, have won their cases.

    The Interior Ministry has rejected accusations meanwhile of pressuring BAMF not to offer full protection to Syrian refugees.

    Officials told the SZ that many applicants do not fulfill the criteria of facing possible persecution in their own country needed to receive full refugee status under the UN’s refugee convention.

    Despite the government hardeneding its stance towards refugees earlier in the year, those who receive a qualified form of asylum known as “subsidiary protection” from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) have increased.

    From January to August, the BAMF have had to face legal action in administrative courts from more than 17 000 asylum seekers, with 6 000 cases passing through the courts in August alone, according to the SZ.

    The vast majority, around 15 000, of the plaintiffs have been Syrians, who make up the largest nationality of asylum requests in Germany and mainly due to court action they are afforded more benefits.

    Because the administrative courts find the applicants deserving of full protection under the Geneva convention in over 90 percent of cases, their chances of achieving a desired outcome against BAMF has so far looked rosy.

    Although those with subsidiary protection may not be deportated, they still face considerable disadvantages in comparison with those who have full refugee status. Most notably, due to a law passed in February, they need to wait two years before their families are allowed to join them.

    From 2014 to March 2016, Syrians were offered collective asylum by the BAMF, but since the middle of March, they have to present individual applications and around 60 percent receive only subsidiary protection. In 2014, before collective cases were introduced, around two-thirds of Syrians were granted full refugee protection.

    Although most refugees have won their bid for full status, Die Linke MP Ulla Jelpke attacked the BAMF’s watchful stance in allowing refugees into the country, as “an intentional strategy of disenfranchisement and deterrence which sacrifices humanity”.

    Germany has seen an increase in terror-related incidents since the floodgates to migrants have opened.

    karin@praag.org

    Consider donating to support our work

    Help us to produce more articles like this. FreeWestMedia is depending on donations from our readers to keep going. With your help, we expose the mainstream fake news agenda.

    Keep ​your language polite​. Readers from many different countries visit and contribute to Free West Media and we must therefore obey the rules in​,​ for example​, ​Germany. Illegal content will be deleted.

    If you have been approved to post comments without preview from FWM, you are responsible for violation​s​ of​ any​ law. This means that FWM may be forced to cooperate with authorities in a possible crime investigation.

    If your comments are subject to preview ​by FWM, please be patient. We continually review comments but depending on the time of day it can take up to several hours before your comment is reviewed.

    We reserve the right to del​ete​ comments that are offensive, contain slander or foul language, or are irrelevant to the discussion.

    No comments.

    By submitting a comment you grant Free West Media a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution. Inappropriate and irrelevant comments will be removed at an admin’s discretion. Your email is used for verification purposes only, it will never be shared.

    In Focus

    Sweden’s NATO membership bid goes up in smoke

    StockholmAfter the burning of the Quran in Stockholm, Turkey has no intention of allowing Sweden to join NATO. Sweden's Prime Minister, on the other hand, pointed to the importance of freedom of expression. The NATO Secretary General also spoke up on the matter.

    Volcanic eruption in Tonga will contribute to global cooling

    When the underwater volcano in the island nation of Tonga in the South Sea had its explosion-like eruption on January 15, 2022, a massive pressure wave, more powerful than the largest atomic bomb, spread through both the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. The catastrophic event created a record-high ash and gas cloud that continues to spread over the earth.

    French NATO soldiers in Romania hungry, freezing, overrun by rats 

    CincuFrench NATO soldiers stationed at the Cincu military base in Romania bitterly complained to an investigative journalist about the terrible living conditions they suffer. They live in filthy prefabricated houses from Mali that are hardly heated, there are not enough toilets, and garbage is piling up in the camp.

    War or peace? The future of Transnistria

    The war is getting closer to Transnistria every day, but the region – a self-proclaimed republic with Russian backing – is still calm and life goes on as usual. However, several threats are on the horizon. Is Transnistria the first country to which war will spill over? We visited this almost forgotten part of Eastern Europe where the Soviet heritage is still visible and present.

    Exclusive: Swedish politician’s Bilderberg attendance exposed through FOI

    StockholmSweden's Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren traveled to the US at the beginning of June to meet globalist politicians and vaccine companies, as well as to attend the Bilderberg Group meeting in Washington DC. The whole thing became an expensive trip for Swedish taxpayers. Hallengren not only chose to fly business class on all flights, but she also stayed in several different luxury hotels.

    ‘Fiat money needed to hide Great Reset costs’

    ViennaThe failure to put the financial system on a solid footing after the financial crisis in 2008, the pandemic and sanctions due to the Ukraine war, have ensured that the cards are finally being reshuffled.

    The Trogneux mystery

    ParisThe First Lady of France could end the suspense of the disappearance of Jean-Michel Trogneux in the blink of an eye, by appearing in the simplest of clothes: A birth suit. Especially since the French are not overly sensitive about nudity.

    At least 69 athletes collapse in one month, many dead

    The reports of athletes who suddenly collapse have been increasing noticeably lately. Heart problems such as heart inflammation are often the cause – one of the known life-threatening side effects of Covid vaccines, which even the manufacturers themselves warn against.

    The bat that flew away

    BerlinMostly claiming the old and very sick, there has been a notable trend of promoting iatrogenic treatment (where the cure was worse than the disease) including excessive use of invasive mechanical ventilators and ineffective and expensive Big Pharma drugs like Remdesivir to treat a pandemic allegedly created by a "bat" from Wuhan in China.

    Norway reclassifies Covid-19: No more dangerous than ordinary flu

    OsloCovid-19 is treated in the mass media as a very dangerous disease in the face of which mass vaccination and severe restrictions for the whole society are applauded despite few deaths beyond the risk groups. But in Norway, it has now been decided to treat it like other respiratory diseases, such as influenza or the cold virus, because according to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health it is no longer more dangerous than these.

    Go to archive