While Minister of the Interior Karl Nehammer (VP) calls for changes to international regulations and is also considering deportations to Syria, a country with civil war, says Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens) no reason to tighten the law. “The asylum law has already been tightened several times in recent years. Our laws offer enough options, but you have to apply them consistently,” said Zadic. She indicated that the Ministry of the Interior could have lifted “the suspensive effect” of the complaints made by the convicted Afghans against their deportation. The Interior Ministry recently complained that two of the suspects could not be deported despite previous convictions because the Federal Administrative Court had not decided on their complaint against deportation for years.
Zadic replied to these allegations that one shouldn’t shift the blame back and forth. “It is important to clear up the case now quickly.” The Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum rejected the statement that it could have had the suspensive effect withdrawn as false.
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Interior Minister Nehammer criticized the asylum system: “The EU asylum system is completely wrongly set up. The Geneva Refugee Convention and its original idea have not been lived for a long time.” EU law blocks deportations before the court has decided. “We are forced to wait for the decisions, even though they are criminals.”
