The attack on two girls in Illerkirchberg continues to cause discussions. Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of the Interior, Thomas Strobl, calls for tough action against those who have fled after serious crimes. But the SPD accuses him of mixing different cases.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – After the bloody attack on two girls in Illerkirchberg, the question of deporting people after serious crimes is increasingly coming into focus. The Baden-Württemberg Minister of the Interior, Thomas Strobl, spoke out clearly in favor of deporting certain perpetrators. “Serious and most serious criminals have forfeited their right to stay and must be deported if at all possible,” said the CDU politician on Wednesday in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. “Anyone who, as a refugee, murders a person and seriously injures another person in the country that offers them protection, has decided that they do not want to stay in this country.”
A man from Eritrea is said to have attacked the two girls on December 5 on the way to school in Illerkirchberg near Ulm, killing a 14-year-old and seriously injuring a 13-year-old girl. The domestic political spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Sascha Binder, was surprised that, from his point of view, the CDU was using the current case in Illerkirchberg with a suspected Eritrean “to breathe life into the debate about deportations to Afghanistan. “
The background to the most recent deportation debate is not the case of the killed girl, but the debate about a young Afghan who raped a 14-year-old girl in a refugee home – also in Illerkirchberg – with other men in 2019. He was sentenced to prison but is now free. Justice Minister Marion Gentges (CDU) had campaigned for the federal government to have the man deported to Afghanistan. However, the federal government has suspended deportations to Afghanistan due to the security situation.
Of course, the question is now being asked as to why people in particular are committing crimes who are seeking protection in Germany, said SPD General Secretary Binder. “There can only be one answer: we treat them in such a way that the full severity of the law in the Federal Republic of Germany also applies to them.”
In his speech, Strobl also warned against politically exploiting the violent death of the girl in Illerkirchberg near Ulm. There is no evidence of a politically, religiously or extremist motivated act. Internal security in the southwest is guaranteed. “In Baden-Württemberg, our children can safely go to school,” said Strobl.
The Baden-Württemberg state parliament members commemorated the victims of Illerkirchberg on Wednesday in a minute’s silence. “We are shaken,” said President of the State Parliament Muhterem Aras (Greens) at the beginning of the plenary session in Stuttgart.
The question of the motive has still not been clarified, said the integration policy spokesman for the Greens, Daniel Lede Abal. “The parents, the relatives will look for reasons and ask questions – even after omissions. Not only the parents will do that.” It is the task of the police and the judiciary to investigate and find answers, said Lede Abal.
The AfD blamed the asylum policy of the other parties for the deadly attack. The domestic spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, Daniel Lindenschmid, called for a “large-scale deportation offensive” by politicians: “Because deportation creates security and those who protect borders protect people.”
