Refugee background checks ‘unaffordable’ – German police union chief
Posted on 06/04/2016 2:53:56 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Screening all refugees before their arrival in Germany would be “unaffordable” and calls for this measure have come too late, the country’s police trade union chief has said.
Germany remains on alert following the arrest of three Syrians with alleged links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) this week on charges they were planning suicide terror attacks in Duesseldorf.
Checking the backgrounds of all refugees already in Germany would be impossible because of ongoing budget cuts in the public sector, while demands to carry out this measure are wise but too late, Rainer Wendt, chief of the police trade union, told news show SWRinfo on Friday.
“It would have been useful in the second half of last year to create conditions for background checks on all people who came to us, in fact, before they traveled [to Germany]. But that is past history now, as we cannot afford it.”
Earlier in the day, the German Justice Ministry said it is investigating nearly 180 terror suspects who have returned from Syria or have links to militant groups there. “At present the Chief Federal Prosecutor is conducting some 120 investigations into more than 180 suspects in connection with the civil war in Syria due to membership or support of a terrorist group,” a Justice Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by Reuters.
On Thursday, three Syrians, identified as 27-year-old Hamza C., 25-year-old Mahood B., and Abd Arahman A. K., 31, were arrested on suspicion of planning attacks in Duesseldorf.
Media reports said that two of the attackers planned to detonate their suicide belts in central Duesseldorf while the other members – including a suspect previously arrested in France – would look to kill as many people in the vicinity with a combination of explosives and gunfire.
All three Syrian suspects were arrested at refugee hostels in the states of North Rhine-Palatinate, Brandenburg and Baden-Wuerttemberg, and were registered there as asylum seekers, according to Spiegel.
A day after the arrests, German authorities said they are monitoring 499 Islamic extremists they believe pose a potential security threat. Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth said security agencies had received regular tip-offs about possible Islamic extremists coming to Germany as asylum seekers and were systematically checking those reports.
However, placing all migrants under suspicion after the arrests would play into Islamic State’s hands, police trade union chief Wendt stressed.
"We know since the attacks of Paris and Brussels that Islamic State wants to influence the migration debate in Europe and to whip up sentiment against refugees," Wendt told Reuters. "This is part of their strategy. We must not fall into their trap."
In April, Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, warned that militants were eyeing cities in the country as targets for future attacks. He claimed they were recruiting supporters from among newly-arrived migrants amid the radicalization of local Arabic-speaking communities.
The homeland security chief said airports and railway stations, as well as large-scale public events such as open air festivals, were the most likely targets for potential attacks. In addition, Maassen stressed that “we’ve seen many times that those [German nationals] who returned from Syria had links to planning attacks in Germany.”
Germany’s security agencies have previously said the number of potential attackers living in the country was “higher than ever before,” giving an estimate of about 760 German citizens joining terror groups in the Middle East.
Time for the Germans to invoke the Ceausescu Protocol.
Refugee background checks ‘unaffordable’ – German police union chief
Sounds like a good reason to ship them all to Syria.
I wonder what price Wendt would put on his own head if some unvetted invader saws it off with a dull knife?
But the expense of absorbing their abuse to the publick welfare is?
Bull Scheisse!
If he thinks the background checks are unaffordable, wait until he sees social, political, physical, and psychological costs it will incur.
Simple solution: collect all the cop's guns, sell 'em to legacy german citizens, use the funds to do the background checks on the Muslims, and send the cops to arrest the ones that don't pass.
Ya could give the cops clubs, if ya didn't have to sell them, too. Otherwise it's bare knuckles.
I am quite sure the German policed have funds to check Germans citizens when they want to buy guns.
Oh good! Then they can use those funds as well to background check them Muslim "refugees".
For Want of a Nail
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
So then it would be cheaper to let none in and let citizen volunteers step up and deport all of them.
Then REJECT them all.
And the recent terrorist attack in France is affordable ? Over 100 dead.
Putting a price tag on German lives?
But giving them welfare for life is?
Why would the police/police union be conducting the checks? Should be a government deal before being handed off to the various ‘precincts” or whatever the Germans call their zones....
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