Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has rejected the accusation by Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser that the suspected perpetrator from Aschaffenburg was still at large. Herrmann told the ARD’s “Tagesthemen”on Thursday evening that a full implementation deficit at the state level was “not the case.”He emphasized that the federal government is responsible for the execution of deportations and that he cannot deport someone to Afghanistan, as the federal government must organize this. “We can only deport to Afghanistan if the federal government arranges this”he said.
Federal Interior Minister Faeser had stated in the ZDF the previous evening that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) had informed the Bavarian authorities seven weeks before the expiration of the Dublin deadline. Herrmann refuted this claim, saying, “This is definitely false. This did not happen seven weeks before, but only a few days before the deadline.”
Regarding the attempt by the AfD next week in the Bundestag to jointly pass a bill to tighten asylum and residence law with the Union, Herrmann issued a rejection. “We will have nothing to do with the AfD”he said. He added that the Union had initiated numerous proposals in recent months, which had consistently failed due to the “federal government, the SPD and the Greens, sometimes also the FDP.””It was not the CDU and CSU that prevented the necessary, fundamental changes in Berlin so far”Herrmann said.