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Faeser has to stop travel to Syria – because of “concrete threat”
Together with Austria’s Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser wanted to fly to Damascus to talk about security issues. But that now fails – it is too insecure.
Actually, the executive Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) and her Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner in Syria wanted to talk, among other things, whether Syria will soon be safe enough to return refugees. But apparently it is already too insecure for this trip:
Due to concrete references to a possibly planned attack, the trip to Syria planned for today was canceled. The managing minister and her delegation should have brought an aircraft from the Air Force to Damascus from Jordan in the morning.
Nancy Faeser received references to “terrorist threats”
“Due to the concrete warnings of the German security authorities on a terrorist threat, Federal Interior Minister Faeser broke off a trip to the Syrian capital Damascus planned for this morning before departure from the Jordanian capital Amman,” said a spokesman for the ministry. Faeser made the decision together with Karner.
“The possible threat to the delegation and the security forces used was not responsible,” said the spokesman.
It could not be ruled out that the danger referred to the German and Austrian delegation.
Center of the trip to Syria: security questions and return of refugees
The trip had been planned under high security measures and not announced in public. Discussions with two ministers from the transitional government and representatives of aid organizations of the United Nations were planned.
The focus should be on security questions and perspectives for returning Syrian refugees. “In particular, Germany and Austria are working intensively on the fact that severe criminals and endangers with Syrian citizenship can be returned to Syria as quickly as possible,” said the spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) currently does not make any decisions on asylum applications from people from Syria due to the unstable situation.
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Source: Stern
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