The Government maintains that any migrant who participates in hate crimes will be deported with “great interest of the State.” “Islam has a place in Germany, Islam does not,” said the vice chancellor.
The German Government presented this Wednesday a bill to strengthen its policy against hate on the Internet, with which it plans to expel from Germany immigrants who celebrate terrorist acts on the Internet.
The text of the diploma was proposed on Wednesday by the Minister of the Interior, the Social Democrat Nancy Faeser, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in reaction to the attack that left one dead and several injured in Mannheim, in the west of the country.
Hours earlier, Faeser had stated, in statements to Funke Mediengruppe (the third German media group), that “those who do not have a German passport and glorify terrorist acts here should, whenever possible, be expelled and deported.”
These words of the Minister of the Interior were supported by the vice-chancellor and minister of the economy, the environmentalist Robert Habeck, who declared, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers, that “anyone who mocks the basic liberal order by celebrating terrible murders loses the right to stay” in Germany.
“Whoever approves terrorist acts and promotes them must leave (…) the State has a great interest in deporting them,” Habeck stressed, recalling that “the Islam has a place in Germany, Islam does not.“.
For Nancy Faeser, “there is no place in our country for Islamist agitators who mentally live in the Stone Age.”
“We are cracking down on Islamist and anti-Semitic hate crimes on the Internet,” he added.
The German Interior Minister made these statements before specifying that, in Germany, there were not only people who celebrated on social networks “the barbaric terrorist attacks of [movimento islamita palestiniano] Hamas against Israel”, carried out in October last year, as well as a “terrible Islamist knife attack in Mannheim, in which the young police officer Rouven Laur died”.
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That attack, which occurred a month ago, also injured six people, including the perpetrator, a 25-year-old Afghan who broke into a public event organized by an organization critical of Islam.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, German authorities have intervened to delete more than 10,700 hate messages on social networks, according to data from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA, in its German acronym).
Later, at a press conference, the minister responded to criticism that her plans may conflict with the right to freedom of expression.
“That is not the case, because we are talking about clear cases of incitement to hatred and glorification of terrorism, which are crimes contemplated in the Penal Code. These are not cases in which someone likes one message or another,” he explained.
Source: Observadora
