Gentges on deportation: do what is legally possible

Created: 2022-12-16, 2:07 p.m

Marion Gentges (CDU), Minister of Justice of Baden-Württemberg.

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After the bloody attack on two girls in Illerkirchberg, the question of deporting people after serious crimes is increasingly coming to the fore.

She recently caught fire in another case from Illerkirchberg.

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Stuttgart - In the dispute with the federal government about the deportation of refugees after serious crimes, Baden-Württemberg's Justice Minister Marion Gentges is pushing for consequences.

"We have to see where we can protect people's safety, where we have to take more preventive action and be more consistent," said the CDU politician after several unsuccessful attempts to deport a convicted rapist from Illerkirchberg to his Afghan homeland.

In any case, the following applies: "What is legally possible, also enforce!"

States should not be excluded from deportations across the board, Gentges told the German Press Agency.

Rather, it is important to differentiate between the cases and to ask what is reasonable for the criminals and dangerous persons to be deported and, on the other hand, for the security of the country.

If there is no ban on deportation for a criminal or a dangerous person after the case has been examined by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), then everything must be tried to actually enforce what is legally possible.

For months, the Ministry of Justice in Berlin has been campaigning for the deportation of a man from Afghanistan who is said to have been involved in the rape of a girl in an asylum center in Illerkirchberg three years ago.

He was sentenced in 2020 but is now free.

The federal government has suspended deportations to Afghanistan since August 2021.

The reason for this is the security situation on site.

According to the Residence Act, a foreigner should not be deported to another country if, among other things, there is a specific risk to life, limb or freedom there.

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