A few months after being deported from Bremen to Lebanon, Ibrahim Miri returned to the Hanseatic city last week. The leading member of the Bremen Miri clan had apparently entered illegally, the Bremen Interior Authority had initiated appropriate criminal investigations. Miri's lawyer had applied for asylum for his client in writing because he was allegedly threatened with death in Lebanon.
Now alleged details of the alleged threat and entry of Miri were known. "Bild am Sonntag" quoted from the three-page asylum application of the lawyer, who was to be received on 30 October by fax at the Bremen branch office of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). According to this, Miri had obtained a passport "with the help of helpers" and had "secretly entered Turkey via Syria". From Turkey he had managed to enter "with the help of smugglers by land to the Federal Republic of Germany".
Miris lawyer should plead "subsidiary protection". His mandate was involuntarily advised in a "blood revenge conflict of the past" between the Miri clan and the rival El Zein clan, which goes back to a stabbing in 2006 in a Bremen restaurant. At that time a nephew Ibrahim Miris was killed, the Miri clan had retaliated. According to Miri, the Lebanese Hezbollah militia should support the El Zein clan and hold him personally responsible for the revenge murder.
Before being deported in July, Miri had been given a seven-year entry ban, according to a decision by the Bremen city authorities. (Read more about the case here). Miri is suspect in around 150 crimes. He was convicted several times in Germany for drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping. According to police evidence, he was president of the banned rocker group Mongol MC. He was sentenced to six years in prison. Germany had unsuccessfully tried to expel him for more than two decades.
