Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) would like to comment on the current security situation in a government statement this Thursday. This would include his permission to Ukraine to attack military targets on Russian territory with German weapons. With this decision, Scholz changed course after more than two years of aggressive war against Ukraine. It is primarily intended to defend against Russian attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
The Russian president Vladimir Putin commented on the chancellor’s decision in an interview with foreign journalists. He combined criticism with a threat: “That would be direct participation in the war against the Russian Federation, and we reserve the right to act in the same way,” he said.
Scholz should be in his Government statement also for Knife attack in Mannheim and the one that follows Debate about deportation of foreign criminals emphatically.
A 25-year-old Afghan wounded several people with a knife during an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim last Friday, including a 29-year-old police officer who rushed to help, who later died from his injuries. Subsequently, calls came from various states to allow deportations to countries such as Afghanistan or Syria again. According to her own statements, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) is currently having this investigated.
Concerns about deportations to Afghanistan
However, international lawyers and human rights experts are concerned. “The so-called non-refoulement is an absolute ban: this means that asylum seekers or refugees may not be returned to a country where they are threatened with treatment that violates human rights,” says Matthias Hartwig, an international law expert from Heidelberg . Rhineland Post. “Conversely, that means they should be included here.”
Since the Islamic Taliban came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Germany has not deported anyone to Afghanistan. Due to the difficult security situation at the time, it had already been agreed in advance that only men – mainly criminals and so-called terrorist threats – would be forcibly brought to Kabul.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) would like to comment on the current security situation in a government statement this Thursday. This would include his permission to Ukraine to attack military targets on Russian territory with German weapons. With this decision, Scholz changed course after more than two years of aggressive war against Ukraine. It is primarily intended to defend against Russian attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
The Russian president Vladimir Putin commented on the chancellor’s decision in an interview with foreign journalists. He combined criticism with a threat: “That would be direct participation in the war against the Russian Federation, and we reserve the right to act in the same way,” he said.