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Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser: "The difficulty seemed to be that he was stateless"
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Could Brokstedt's crime have been prevented?
According to Home Secretary Nancy Faeser, the alleged assassin could have been deported under certain circumstances.
"We tried to get to him, and if we had known that he was in custody, we could have listened to him and then deported him," said the SPD politician at the dpa chief editors' conference on Monday in Berlin.
"We now know there was misinformation."
There were hardly any repatriations to the Palestinian territories
According to Faeser, the authorities had previously tried to deport the man - and they failed.
"The problem seemed to be that he was stateless," said Faeser.
According to her, that would have been a process with the State of Israel and the Palestinian authorities.
The authorities in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein blame each other for dealing with the alleged perpetrator.
Among other things, the question is why the procedure of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) to withdraw the so-called subsidiary protection status for the Palestinians was not completed.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, returns to the Palestinian territories are possible in principle, but very difficult.
In the past, this had only happened in very few cases with the consent of Israel.
Ibrahim A. is said to have stabbed other passengers with a knife on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg on January 25.
Two young people died and five others were injured, some seriously.
Almost a week earlier, the 33-year-old had been released from custody in Hamburg.
It had previously become known that the file that the Bamf on Ibrahim A. created contained an identity card from Syria from another person.
Therefore, the BAMF has meanwhile assumed that the man is a stateless Palestinian from Syria.
A Bamf department head had also stated in the interior committee of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament that Ibrahim A. himself had said after entering the country in 2014 that he came from the Gaza Strip and was stateless.
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