The chancellor spoke at the Kirchentag on the subject of asylum. He himself classifies the statement as a joke. The sea rescue organization Sea-Watch doesn’t find it funny.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has come under criticism with a statement on the subject of asylum, which he himself classified as a joke and which others are outraged about.
At the Evangelical Church Congress in Nuremberg, he first explained that although Germany is a country without an external EU border, it still has the most asylum seekers. Most of them had not previously been registered in other EU countries. Then Scholz said on Saturday: “I already made the joke at the European Council: Germany must have a large beach on the Mediterranean. Because in fact more refugees who come to Europe via the Mediterranean arrive in Germany than in the Mediterranean countries. countries in detail.”
The sea rescue organization Sea-Watch criticized this: there have been more than 1,150 deaths in 2023 alone – and the only thing the chancellor can think of is a “bad joke,” it said on Twitter. “Anyone who can laugh about it shouldn’t govern a state.” Criticism also came from the deputy leader of the left, Lorenz Gösta Beutin. CDU member of the Bundestag Matthias Hauer wrote: “Especially a Chancellor should not make fun of people’s suffering.” SPD influencer Lilly Blaudszun, a member of the Kirchentag presidium, tweeted: “A social democratic chancellor should never talk about people like that.”
Source: Stern
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