Role back in Lübeck: Hans-Joachim Grote, chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK), has put into perspective his statements of Thursday afternoon about the deportation ban to Syria. This should first be "extended until 30.6.2020 without restrictions," said Grote the news agency dpa. The representatives of the 16 interior ministers had agreed.
As in previous years, the decision expected for Friday should de facto be valid for one year because it would automatically extend - unless in the summer there is a new assessment of the situation in Syria.
Previously, Grote had said, "It remains true: there is a deportation ban to Syria, except for serious crimes, and I believe that it would not be the same for people here to convict someone who commits a serious crime yet the refugee's protection status Has." At some point these rights, which Germany granted, would also be forfeited. This statement was interpreted in such a way that the IMK wanted to make an exception to the deportation stop for serious offenses.
Grote clarifies: IMK call for "update of the situation assessment in Syria"
He made it clear to dpa that the interior ministers of the federal states would ask the federal government "to update the situation assessment in Syria until the spring session of the IMK 2020". In addition, the government should be "asked to create the conditions for the return of certain groups of people - for example, perpetrators and offenders - to Syria."
Boris Pistorius, representing the SPD ministers, said: "I am very skeptical about this, and I am very skeptical about it, even with a heavy heart, in order to get a deportation ban at all." The interior ministers would ask the federal government to examine the conditions for this. "But always on a case-by-case basis and above all not now," emphasized Pistorius.
Courts put high barriers to deportations to dangerous regions
In any case, it is unclear whether deportation to Syria would be legally possible: The German courts pay careful attention to whether threatened with a transfer to the country of origin torture or a danger to life and limb. Should that be the case, deportation is out of the question, not even for offenders or perpetrators.
According to the Foreign Office, there is currently no region in Syria where refugees can return without risk. According to an internal report of the authority: "Again and again returnees, especially - but not only - those who are known as oppositional or critical of the regime or even considered as such, renewed expulsion, sanctions or repression, up to the immediate Exposure to life and limb, suspended. "