Report: Suspect in a stabbing in Germany had deportation order
The Syrian asylum seeker suspected of killing three people and injuring several others at a “diversity festival” in Germany on Friday reportedly had a deportation order issued last year, but authorities failed to deport him from the country.
According to information from the German newspaper The world26-year-old Issa Al H., the Syrian asylum seeker who turned himself in to the police on Saturday after the mass stabbing in Solingen, was due to be deported in 2023.
A deportation date to Bulgaria had been set for the suspected terrorist. This was the country in which he first entered the European Union and therefore, according to the Dublin Regulation, the country in which his asylum application should have been processed.
However, after his deportation order, Issa Al H. disappeared from his apartment in the western German city of Paderborn. He resurfaced a few months later, but instead of being deported, he was reportedly granted “subsidiary protection” for people from countries with civil wars and taken to a refugee camp in Solingen, where Friday’s attack took place.
Although the suspect was apparently not on the police radar because of his extremist tendencies, the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack in Solingen, claiming it was intended as an act of revenge against “Christians” for “Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere.”
The suspected stabber is said to have shouted the jihadist battle cry “Allahu Akbar” during the attack on the Diversity Festival on Friday. Three people were killed and eight others injured in the attack, including four with life-threatening injuries. The suspected terrorist is said to have deliberately aimed at the necks of his victims.
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The attack has led to increased pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-wing coalition government to crack down on mass migration and increase deportations.
The leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Friedrich Merz, called on the government to continue with the deportations to Syria and Afghanistan that had been stopped due to security concerns and to stop accepting asylum seekers from these countries.
“It’s enough,” wrote Merz, saying: “After the terrorist attack in Solingen, it should now be clear: it’s not the knives that are the problem, but the people who walk around with them… In the majority of cases, these are refugees, and the majority of the attacks were motivated by Islamist motives.”
The CDU chairman also called on the government to immediately revoke the residence status of any alleged asylum seeker who returns to his or her home country. It had previously become known that many so-called Afghan refugees were vacationing in their home country despite allegedly meeting the requirements for asylum.
Although the centre-right party has been out of power since late 2021, some still blame the party for opening “the gates” to mass migration from the Middle East and Africa under former leader Angela Merkel in 2015 and triggering the European refugee crisis. A sign on the monument in Solingen sarcastically reads: “Thank you, Angela Merkel Green Party”.
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