German Interior Ministry acknowledges data on Syrian refugees visiting their country for holiday
In response to a briefing by Francesca Prattner, a member of the opposition Green Party in the German parliament, the German Interior Ministry acknowledged that it doesn’t have a “comprehensive approach” to the number of recognized Syrian refugees who have spent holidays in their country of origin on a regular basis.
The German news agency DPA reported Wednesday morning.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer spoke to the mass-circulation daily Bild am Sonntag earlier this month, declaring that “those who regularly vacation in Syria cannot claim to be seriously persecuted.
We must therefore withdraw his asylum, but the deportation doesn’t threaten Syrian refugees residing in Germany by virtue of a comprehensive suspension of deportations to Syria, where war is still raging.
The fact that the German Interior Ministry doesn’t have data on Syrians who have spent their holidays in Syria has aroused the indignation of MP Bratner, who attacked the Minister of the Interior, according to statements quoted by the German Agency, saying that “Mr. Horst Seehofer is a media trumpet for demands to lift it without any grounds, The right of asylum for people without tangible facts”, referring to his media exit in recent weeks through successive statements on this file found widespread resonance on social networking sites, especially among supporters of the anti-immigrant Alternative Party.
According to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), a refugee’s visit to his country of origin doesn’t necessarily mean that his right to asylum has been withdrawn.
A case has to be decided on a case-by-case basis.
One of the sick relatives has no fear of losing refugee status, but it is different if it is a long holiday in the country of origin, which may be an indication that the refugee is not persecuted.
