Federal government wants to tighten deportation law

Federal government wants to tighten deportation law Reuters • 1 hour • 2 minutes reading time Berlin (Reuters) - Foreigners in Germany who stir up Islamist or anti-Semitic hatred should be able to be deported and deported more easily in the future. This is the result of a proposal by Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, which the cabinet in Berlin approved on Wednesday. The draft is now to be introduced into an ongoing legislative process in the Bundestag so that it can then be passed quickly, the ministry announced. The SPD politician and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck of the Greens welcomed the decision. "We are taking tough action against Islamist and anti-Semitic hate crimes on the Internet," explained Faeser. "Anyone who does not have a German passport and glorifies terrorist acts here must - wherever possible - be deported and deported." She referred to the pro-Palestinian demonstrations following the attack by the radical Islamic Hamas on Israel on October 7th, which repeatedly resulted in anti-Semitic excesses. According to Faeser, the knife attack in Mannheim on May 31st, in which a police officer was killed and which was widely glorified on the Internet, was also the reason for the tightening of the law, which is also said to affect people from Afghanistan and Syria. "Anyone who approves of terrorist acts and promotes them must go," explained Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck. "Then the state has a serious interest in deporting them. Islam belongs to Germany, Islamism does not." It is a great achievement that persecuted people can find protection. "But anyone who mocks the basic liberal order by cheering on terrorism and celebrating terrible murders forfeits their right to stay," explained the Green politician. The Minister of Economic Affairs thus struck a tougher tone than other parts of the Green Party. The parliamentary manager of the Bundestag faction, Irene Mihalic, was initially cautious. Whether the new construction of the serious interest in deportation is helpful or not is "the subject of the review that we will also carry out in the faction." There is now a position within the cabinet that will be passed on to parliament: "And then we will look at whether we think it is viable or not." According to the proposal, in future a single comment on social media that glorifies a terrorist crime will justify a serious interest in deportation. In general, deportations will be possible if the criminal offense of rewarding and approving of crimes has been committed. "A criminal conviction does not yet have to have been made for this," explained the Interior Ministry. (Report by Alexander Ratz and Holger Hansen, edited by Christian Götz.)