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Germany Mass Stabbing Suspect Had Deportation Order: Report

August 25, 2024

A Syrian asylum seeker suspected of killing three people and wounding several others at a “diversity festival” in Germany on Friday was reportedly issued a deportation order last year, but authorities failed to deport him.

According to the information Obtained According to the German Journal of Record Die WeltSyrian asylum seeker Issa al-H., 26, who turned himself in to police on Saturday after the mass stabbing in Solingen, was due to be deported in 2023.

The terrorism suspects had a planned removal date for their return to Bulgaria, the country where they first entered the European Union and therefore where, under the Dublin Regulation, their asylum claims would have been processed.

But after receiving his deportation order, Issa al-H. disappeared from his home in the West German city of Paderborn. He reappeared a few months later, but rather than being expelled, Reportedly It gave “auxiliary protection” to people from war-torn countries and transferred them to a refugee centre in Solingen, where Friday’s attack took place.

Although the suspect appears not to have been on police radar due to his extremist tendencies, the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack in Solingen, claiming it was carried out as an act of revenge against “Christians” against “Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere.”

The knife-wielding suspect also reportedly shouted the jihadist battle cry “Allah is great” as he attacked the Diversity Festival on Friday, leaving three people dead and eight injured, four of them with life-threatening injuries. The suspect is said to have specifically targeted his victims’ necks.

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The attack increased pressure on Prime Minister Olaf Scholz’s left-wing coalition government to crack down on mass immigration and step up deportations.

Friedrich Merz, leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), called on the government to begin forced returns to Syria and Afghanistan, which have been suspended due to security concerns, and to stop accepting asylum seekers from those countries.

“Enough is enough,” Mertz said. Written“After the terrorist attack in Solingen it should finally have become clear: it’s not the knives that are the problem, it’s the people who carry them. In most cases these were refugees and there were Islamist motives behind most of the acts,” he said.

The CDU leader also called on the government to immediately revoke the residence status of alleged asylum seekers returning to their home countries, after it emerged that many so-called refugees from Afghanistan were holidaying in their home country despite needing asylum from Afghanistan.

But while the centre-right party has been out of power since the end of 2021, some still blame it for its role in sparking Europe’s migrant crisis by “opening the door” to mass immigration from the Middle East and Africa in 2015 under former Chancellor Angela Merkel. Placed At the memorial in Solingen he sarcastically said: “Thank you, Angela Merkel’s party, the Greens.”