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’s Eve sexual assaults in Cologne.
Germany’s justice minister said asylum-seekers could be deported if they’re found to have participated in the assaults.
Police say witnesses have described the perpetrators as being of “Arab or North African origin”, but there’s little solid information so far on who committed the assaults. That has been seized on by some opponents of Germany’s welcoming stance toward those fleeing conflict after the country registered nearly 1.1 million asylum-seekers last year.
Officials have cautioned it’s vital not to cast suspicion on refugees in general.
Still, Merkel said that “we 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”.
She said in Berlin that the New Year’s assaults were “repugnant criminal acts that ... Germany will not accept”.
“The feeling women had in this case of being at people’s mercy, without any protection, is intolerable for me personally as well.”
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview with the Funke newspaper group that “deportations would certainly be conceivable”.
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