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Discussion about detention for those who have to leave the country and criteria for the classification of danger
After the asylum seeker Ahmad A. When a man stabbed a 50-year-old man to death in an Edeka supermarket in Hamburg-Barmbeck on Friday and subsequently injured another seven people, some of them seriously, media outlets such as the Hamburger Abendblatt spoke of a failure of the authorities. Among other things, they refer to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), which did not send the man, who entered Germany in 2015 via Scandinavia and Spain, back to Sweden, even though Sweden is part of the Dublin area and even though Ahmad A. had previously been resident there for so long that an interview with the Hamburg foreign office on 3. November was partly conducted in Swedish. The same question arises with regard to Spain, where he lived afterwards. It is possible that the BAMF failed to take such measures because the Palestinian, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, claimed to the authorities that he wanted to leave for the Gaza Strip and had papers ied by the representative office of the Palestinian autonomous authority in Berlin for this purpose.
CSU Secretary General Andreas Scheuer spoke to the Picture on Sunday of a "procedural vicious circle in deportations", the "be ended" must. In addition "such persons should be taken out of circulation and arrested before they commit acts". SPD interior expert Burkhard Lischka did not contradict this, but said in the Heilbronner Voice, even if the "Concrete circumstances still unclear" are, nevertheless "the question of why the man was not in custody pending deportation sab", although "the possibilities for doing so had been extended only a few weeks ago" had been.
Social psychiatric examination demanded, but never carried out
By this, the Social Democrat was referring to the option created after the Berlin Christmas market attack to detain persons, one of whom "considerable danger" ames to be taken into custody pending deportation. Federal Minister of Justice Heiko Maas had claimed to this in the ZDF talk show Maybrit Illner: "With what has now been decided, there will be no repetition of the Amri case in any case." That the Hamburg Edeka attack nevertheless occurred is due to the fact that Ahmad A. was not considered a threat, although an acquaintance of the man had alerted the police in August to the fact that A. dresses like a Salafist, no longer drinks alcohol and wants to talk about the Koran all the time.
The Hamburg police took a look at the later perpetrator and recommended a social psychiatric examination, which, however, did not take place. According to the Hamburg police president Ralf Martin Meyer, who is responsible for this can only be clarified when the "responsible officials can be reached". In the meantime, the CDU in Hamburg’s city council has called for a special session of the Interior Committee, in which this question is also to be investigated.
State or federal government?
The CSU politician Stephan Mayer, who is the spokesman on domestic policy for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, criticized in the daily newspaper Die Welt that there are federal states that do not use a new system developed by the Federal Criminal Police Office for classifying dangerous persons. "The conditions", according to Mayer, "have been relaxed in order to take into custody those who are in danger of leaving the country." Now "required the countries to apply for deportation custody for these Islamists, even if, for example, no passport replacement papers are available yet but have only been applied for."
The CDU interior expert Wolfgang Bosbach, who wants to leave active politics, sees the main responsibility, however, rather in the federal policy: He said to the same newspaper: "If we continue to allow hundreds of third-country nationals with unclear identities and nationalities to enter the country every day, we will continue to have serious problems with repatriation."
magistrate: "no reliable evidence" on a reduced culpability of the perpetrator
The judge who sentenced Ahmad A. remanded in custody on Saturday on suspicion of one completed and five attempted murders, could, according to the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office, point "No reliable evidence" of reduced culpability of the perpetrator, who said during questioning that he was a terrorist. The fact that leading media nevertheless speculate about a mental illness as the cause of the death is not always met with understanding in social media.
For example, Ali Utlu, who switched from the Pirate Party to the FDP, said he was "I’m sorry that Islamic perpetrators are always called mentally ill – are all religious people mentally ill then??" This view, which Sigmund Freud supported in his assessment that religion was "a kind of humanity neurosis, a collective obsessive-compulsive neurosis" is also widespread in social media. Twitter user Darth Monchichi put it into words yesterday somewhat more present-oriented as follows: "Who believes, he is rewarded for the murder of fellow men by an imaginary being with Schlaraffistan, is therefore mentally unstable? Well holla …"