Germany refugees face exile
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that Germany must examine whether it has done enough to deport foreigners who commit crimes, amid fallout from a string of New Year鈥檚 Eve sexual assaults in Cologne.
Germany鈥檚 justice minister said asylum-seekers could be deported if they鈥檙e found to have participated in the assaults.
Police say witnesses have described the perpetrators as being of 鈥淎rab or North African origin鈥, but there鈥檚 little solid information so far on who committed the assaults. That has been seized on by some opponents of Germany鈥檚 welcoming stance toward those fleeing conflict after the country registered nearly 1.1 million asylum-seekers last year.
Officials have cautioned it鈥檚 vital not to cast suspicion on refugees in general.
Still, Merkel said that 鈥渨e must examine again and again whether we have already done what is necessary in terms of ... deportations from Germany in order to send clear signals to those who are not prepared to abide by our legal order鈥.
She said in Berlin that the New Year鈥檚 assaults were 鈥渞epugnant criminal acts that ... Germany will not accept鈥.
鈥淭he feeling women had in this case of being at people鈥檚 mercy, without any protection, is intolerable for me personally as well.鈥
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview with the Funke newspaper group that 鈥渄eportations would certainly be conceivable鈥.
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