Posted on 01/09/2017 8:18:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
German Interior Minister and Christian Democrat Thomas de Maizière has accused the CDU’s Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners of failing to cooperate when it comes to security and terrorism.
In an interview with German weekly Bild am Sonntag, de Maizière said he was not sure whether “everyone in the SPD is ready to take tough measures.”
“We could be much farther ahead,” de Maziere added. “Especially regarding the concrete improvement of deportation possibilities.”
SPD General Secretary Katarina Barley, however, said de Maizière’s criticism of her party was only to “distract from his own failures.” She added that the interior minister had not been able to master the situation at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, which had allowed suspected Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri to travel in Germany under 14 different aliases.
“Tougher laws would not have prevented a terror attack ahead of time, and knee-jerk calls for tightening them now will do just as little,” she said. …
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Translation: laws don't work, so why bother?
This, combined with the state security’s comments point to a shift in German policy regarding the “refugees”.
I hope.
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