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Should the city of Fürstenfeldbruck accept refugees from Moria? Now the district administrator reacts

2020-10-05T09:35:48.730Z


The refugee disaster in the Greek Moria camp is also a concern of the Bruck city council. Many would like to do something. But how, that is the question.


The refugee disaster in the Greek Moria camp is also a concern of the Bruck city council.

Many would like to do something.

But how, that is the question.

Fürstenfeldbruck - Christian Götz (BBV) wanted to send out a signal as quickly as possible by means of an urgent application that the city was accepting refugees.

However, after formal difficulties and a heated debate, it was agreed that the subject would not be dealt with conclusively until the next city council.

The urgent application was actually not on the agenda.

Florian Weber (The Party) requested that he be included.

He saw an urgency, especially since the urgent application had been made only a few days after the fire in the Moria camp.

City hall lawyer Christian Kieser saw it differently: An application is only urgent if the city or a third party could be damaged if one waits until the next plenary session.

That is not the case here - although the fate of the refugees and Bruck's willingness to help are important issues.

Kieser recommended that an agreement be reached in the group chairmen.

The council decided with 20:16 votes to deal with the issue that evening.

"Humanitarian Disaster"

Götz spoke of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Some municipalities have tried to help without a shirt.

Bruck could do that too.

Götz demanded that the administration look for ways and means to take in refugees from Moria in the short term, and that the mayor should signal to the federal and state government to accommodate a certain number.

In addition, the city should join the “Safe Haven” alliance - a purely symbolic act. Nobody doubted that help was needed.

But you have to approach it in a structured way, said Andreas Lohde (CSU).

He suggested approaching District Administrator Thomas Karmasin and the government of Upper Bavaria.

Subject "not urgent"

The crux of the matter: Mayor Erich Raff had asked the local authority.

Their assessment: The topic is not urgent.

So the OB feared that the legal supervision would cash the decision and that it would take longer before it could be dealt with again.

Karin Geißler (Greens) interjected that the item could have been put on the agenda as normal.

She found it "embarrassing" that that did not happen.

Other municipalities also reacted quickly and made invalid resolutions.

"Then we let the local supervisory authority say that a declaration of intent is illegal," said Alexa Zierl (ÖDP).

With a pure declaration of will, he would have no problem, so Raff.

Jan Halbauer (Greens) suggested formulating the application similar to that of the City of Munich - in other words, less detailed.

But Götz did not want to resolve it, but rather give it back to the administration.

One could submit a legally compliant decision from Halbauer's proposal in four weeks, said Kieser.

Everyone agreed with that.

This is how the district administrator reacts

District Administrator Thomas Karmasin, based on the assumption that a majority in the city council could vote in favor of the motion, responded with a letter to the city.

The will to take in more refugees presupposes, logically, that the city of Fürstenfeldbruck has unused capacities to accommodate asylum seekers and the homeless.

"As you know, the state district office has been entrusted with the task of accommodating asylum seekers and has been acquiring more and more accommodations since 2014," writes Karmasin.

The accommodation capacities are particularly scarce in Upper Bavaria and in the catchment area of ​​Munich, as is well known.

"I would therefore be grateful for information as to whether the impression conveyed by parts of the city council that there is free capacity in the district town corresponds to reality." If so, Karmasin would be grateful for a corresponding report.

"I think we agree that we must first accommodate the immigrants assigned to us before we look for additional ones in the world or even with the safe EU partner Greece."

Source: merkur

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