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Applicable law is being broken at all external borders of the European Union, as the refugees are being turned away with increasing brutality. Dictators take advantage of this and try to blackmail the EU. This is also criticized by the author of the EU-Turkey deal.
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“Politically persecuted people enjoy the right to asylum” – this is Article 16a of the German Basic Law, which is based on the Geneva Convention on Refugees. That is actually what the European Union has taken on. But the situation at the EU’s external borders is becoming more and more complicated – and increasingly brutal.
There is more and more talk of push-backs, i.e. the illegal and often violent rejection of people at the borders. Other countries are also trying to blackmail the EU. The Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, for example, allows migrants to fly into his country and smuggle them specifically to the EU’s external borders, where these people are increasingly coming to Germany via Poland.
Gerald Knaus is a migration researcher and helped design the EU’s Turkey deal. He warns of the end of the refugee convention: “If the Europeans, as the richest continent, deal so brutally with irregular migrants and asylum seekers, other countries will not comply either.”
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Trial of 96-year-old concentration camp secretary
In Itzehoe, the indictment against a former secretary of the Stutthof concentration camp is to be read out today. Irmgard S. is charged with complicity in murder in 11,412 cases. Actually, the process against the 96-year-old woman should start weeks ago. But the woman fled her nursing home on the first day of the trial and did not appear to the trial. stern-Editor Nicolas Büchse has been dealing intensively with this case for years and criticizes: Irmgard S. could have been tried many years ago.
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