The lower house of the German parliament approved on Friday a set of measures which, among other things, restrict aid to asylum seekers who have already submitted their application. an application in another European country. This package was promoted by the social-democratic government of Olaf Scholz in reaction to the jihadist attack which left four people dead this summer in the town of Solingen.
The attack was carried out by a Syrian whose asylum application in Germany had been rejected and who should have been returned to Bulgaria, the country through which he had entered the European Union (EU), despite which he was not was not deported and continued to receive assistance. , remembers Efe.
However, part of the government package was blocked by the upper house (Bundesrat), where the state governments are represented.
Measures limiting to a minimum aid to asylum seekers already registered in other countries will therefore come into force, but not others which gave more powers to security agencies.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany’s main opposition party, and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) of Bavaria, have justified their rejection of part of the package by arguing that many restrictions are imposed on security agencies to use their new device. SKILLS.
The Minister of the Interior, Social Democrat Nancy Faeser, criticized the attitude of the CDU/CSU which led to part of the package being blocked in the Bundesrat.
“The Union is depriving our security agencies of much-needed powers in the face of current threats,” Faeser said in a statement.
Among the powers security agencies were expected to receive was the ability to search faces and voices on the Internet for up to three days using biometric data and automatic enforcement, but only with authorization in a court of law from the president of the Federal Crime Office (Federal Office of Criminal Affairs). BKA) or its representative.
Part of the approved package consisted of a strengthening of the law on the carrying of weapons which prohibits, except for professional needs, the carrying of knives in certain circumstances.
