Germany plans to facilitate deportation of foreigners glorifying terrorist acts

The German government announced new legislation on Wednesday that will make it easier to deport foreigners who publicly approve of terrorist acts. According to the law, A single comment on social networks This may provide grounds for expelling a person.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz He promised the measure after a cabinet-approved knife attack against members of a group calling itself “political Islam”, an attack that left a police officer dead. It comes as the Scholz government faces widespread pressure to curb migration.

The Home Ministry said this Residence law will be amended So that approval or promotion of a “single terrorist crime” could be grounds for “particularly serious interest in expulsion”. This means that in the future, a single comment that “glorifies and condemns a terrorist crime on social media” could be grounds for expulsion.

Anyone who publicly condones a crime “in a manner that disturbs the public peace” could also be expelled without requiring a conviction. Liking a social media post would not be sufficient grounds for deportation, he said. Nancy Feser

Home Minister.

Fesser said Hamas’ actions in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel were “disgustingly celebrated” on German social media, and the attack in Mannheim was “even glorified by many people online.” in the most brutal way,

“This kind of online insensitivity fosters a climate of violence that can inspire extremists to commit new acts of violence,” Feser said. “So it’s very clear to me that Islamic agitatorThere is no place in our country for people who mentally live in the Stone Age. “Anyone who does not have a German passport and who glorifies terrorist acts here should be expelled and deported wherever possible.”

He said he was confident lawmakers would approve the change soon, and that he didn’t think it would happen Confrontation with freedom of speech laws,