Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) wants to take tough action against foreigners in Germany who condone and celebrate terrorist acts. “Anyone who does not have a German passport and glorifies terrorist acts here must – wherever possible – be expelled and deported,” Faeser told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
In this context, Faeser is proposing a change to the deportation law, which the cabinet is expected to approve on Wednesday. In future, even a single comment glorifying and condoning a terrorist crime on social media could lead to deportation.
The federal government is reacting, among other things, to hate postings on the Internet following the Hamas attack on Israel and the allegedly Islamist-motivated knife attack on a police officer in Mannheim. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced the tightening of the law in a government statement following the fatal knife attack in Mannheim.
Faeser now said that after the cabinet decision, the change should also be discussed in the Bundestag “as soon as possible”. The SPD politician wants to introduce a new case group for a particularly serious interest in deportation if someone is guilty of condoning criminal offenses.
