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Tens of thousands are seeking asylum in Baden-Württemberg.
Most of them integrate, others become criminals.
Often they are foreigners who should have already been deported.
Then specialists are required.
Stuttgart - A rioting asylum seeker from Gambia is one of them, a knife stabber from Somalia and a man from Syria who was imprisoned for several years because of attack plans: A total of 418 criminals and other intensive offenders from abroad have been in custody since the so-called special unit for dangerous foreigners was founded was deported from Baden-Württemberg six years ago at his instigation.
They were all classified as having to leave the country and being dangerous.
According to its head Falk Fritzsch, the special staff in Stuttgart, together with the four regional special staffs that are now attached to the regional councils, take care of the expulsions and deportations of foreign multiple and intensive offenders.
Most come from countries such as Gambia, Turkey and Pakistan, but also from Syria and Iraq, said Baden-Württemberg Migration State Secretary Siegfried Lorek (CDU).
According to its head, the problems of identity and nationality of those affected are particularly difficult for the special staff.
Of the 26,450 foreigners with toleration in the southwest who are required to leave the country (as of January 31, 2024), 6,023 were unable to present any travel documents, and a further 2,591 completely refused to provide any information about their identity.
“These people are not willing to participate,” said Fritzsch.
They are often “washed in the water” and provide no information or provide false information in order to deceive.
For example, a man from Gambia could pretend to be Senegalese.
Overall, according to Lorek, more than 52 percent of asylum seekers were unable to present a passport when entering Germany last year.
According to this information, 818 of the 2,099 people expelled from Baden-Württemberg last year were criminals.
However, not all of them are a case for the special staff, said Fritzsch.
The experts there focused primarily on foreigners who threatened the country's security, as well as multiple and serious offenders.
The staff also keeps an eye on foreigners who are required to leave the country and who consciously violate the rules and stubbornly prove that they cannot be integrated.
This case management is quite intensive, there are numerous discussions, extensive research for identification documents in sometimes remote countries and time-consuming consultations with the authorities in the responsible home country.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the charter flights for the deportees cost many thousands of euros per person.
However, the Baden-Württemberg Refugee Council takes a hard line against practice: Of course, people should be held accountable for crimes they commit, regardless of their origin, nationality or residency status.
Crimes committed in Germany should be punished within the German justice system.
“The Refugee Council rejects the fact that people are punished multiple times because of their origin,” said the council’s co-director, Anja Bartel.
Just because a person who has committed a crime does not happen to have German citizenship, he should not be punished by deportation in addition to the criminal consequences.
This especially does not apply if this person would be at risk to life and limb.
People should not come under general suspicion because of their origin, criticized Bartel and also takes exception to the title of the institution: “The term “Dangerous Foreigners Department” alone stirs up racist resentment, creates stereotypical images in people’s minds and thus contributes to division in society at."
Given that there were a total of 36,319 registered asylum seekers in Baden-Württemberg last year, the number of people deported by the special staff seems small.
But Lorek defends them: In cases like the rioting man from Gambia, an entire village community breathes a sigh of relief after the deportation.
“These are small numbers, but these are exactly the people who endanger the feeling of security objectively and subjectively,” said the State Secretary.
“If we can get a person like that out of the country, it will help security enormously.”
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Head of Special Staff Fritzsch sees it similarly: “We cannot save the world with our deportations,” he said.
“But we do what we can.”
However, deportations alone cannot offset the high number of asylum seekers and refugees, criticized Lorek.
The federal government must make greater efforts to reduce access; that is imperative.
Among other things, there are still a lot of countries of origin, such as in North Africa, with which cooperation is difficult.
“The federal government should focus on states that do not cooperate,” he recommended.
There are also problems with Afghanistan: deportations are not allowed there because of the security situation.
This also explains why a sex criminal who drugged and raped a young girl with four other men in 2019 was not deported after his release from prison.
Since he lived in Illerkirchberg (Alb-Donau district) before the crime, he had to be readmitted there against the will of the community.
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