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The ministers vowed, amongst different issues, to categorise knife crimes as a motive for deportation, together with to Syria and Afghanistan; to scrap advantages for asylum seekers the state deems ought to search safety within the EU nation they first entered beneath the Dublin Convention; and to take away protected standing from refugees who go away Germany to go to their house international locations with out a compelling motive.
By reducing advantages for such “Dublin” instances, the coalition hopes to scale back migration figures.
According to the German authorities, solely round 3,500 of the 25,000 asylum seekers who have been obliged to use for asylum in one other member state have been really transferred there from Germany within the first half of 2024. The Solingen suspect, for instance, was in a position to keep away from being transferred to Bulgaria by hiding from the authorities till the related deadlines had expired.
In addition, a full ban on knives at public festivals and on public transport is to be launched, whereas the police are to be allowed to hold out random searches for bladed weapons.
The new measures are to be applied “as rapidly as attainable,” Buschmann stated. The course of is predicted to take a few months, nonetheless, as the 2 ministries have to arrange draft legal guidelines that should then be adopted by the cupboard and voted on in each chambers of parliament.
Migration is a key concern amongst voters forward of three state elections in japanese Germany in September. The far-right AfD, with its anti-immigration message, is main — or near main — native polls in all three states.
In two state elections to be held this Sunday, in Saxony and Thuringia, all three events of the nationwide ruling coalition will battle to win sufficient votes to achieve the 5-percent threshold wanted to make it into the state parliaments.
Germany has seen an increase in knife assaults in latest months, triggering a nationwide debate on elevated safety controls and no-knife zones. Around 430 such assaults have taken place within the first half of 2024, in response to figures from the federal police.
