Latest Breaking News

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts) Tue Jan 12, 2016, 01:36 PM Jan 2016

Germany reveals plans to relax deportation rules for foreign criminals

Source: CNN

Updated 11:26 AM ET, Tue January 12, 2016

Germany has announced plans to relax its restrictions on deporting foreign criminals after an unprecedented wave of mob sex assaults in Cologne and other cities on New Year's Eve.

Germany's Justice Ministry announced Tuesday that new laws had been drafted to allow it to more easily deport migrants found guilty of crimes causing death or serious injury, sexual or physical assaults, or resisting police officers.

~ snip ~

Germany has been reeling after a crime wave in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Large numbers of women reported being sexually assaulted or robbed by gangs of men of Arab or North African appearance during celebrations in the city center, with some victims saying they feared for their lives.

~ snip ~

Other European cities reported a similar slew of sex crime reports on New Year's Eve.

~ snip ~

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/europe/germany-cologne-migrants-tensions/

4 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Germany reveals plans to relax deportation rules for foreign criminals (Original Post) FrodosPet Jan 2016 OP

very sensible rule, but obviously those rules should never have been so strict nt geek tragedy Jan 2016 #1

Good for Germany. Targets the criminals, not the majority of refugees who are good people. n/t pampango Jan 2016 #2

Now the police just needs to be less timid christx30 Jan 2016 #3

This whole Bernin Jan 2016 #4

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

1. very sensible rule, but obviously those rules should never have been so strict nt

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 02:11 PM

Jan 2016

pampango

(24,692 posts)

2. Good for Germany. Targets the criminals, not the majority of refugees who are good people. n/t

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 02:14 PM

Jan 2016

christx30

(6,241 posts)

3. Now the police just needs to be less timid

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 03:31 PM

Jan 2016

about arresting and holding the violent people who happen to be immigrants. Be willing to do it, or all the relaxed rules aren't going to matter at all.
Have any of the attackers from Cologne faced charges yet?

Bernin

(311 posts)

4. This whole

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 04:20 PM

Jan 2016

thing has been absurd from the start.
Europe is not the melting pot.

Reply to this discussion