Greek Coast Guard opens fire on migrant vessel
from Turkey after provocation, one migrant killed
Turkey has been bullying and provoking Greece for quite some time, while aiding Muslim migrants to invade Greece — which is, of course, recognized as an important entry point to the European Union.
Recently, a Greek border guard was shot by what was believed to be a migrant smuggler while he was patrolling the unsafe border with Turkey.
Tensions will continue to grow between Greece and Turkey. Islamic supremacist Turkey is at fault.
Greece Coast Guard opens fire on migrant vessel from Turkey and kills one
by Lilian Trickey, Jurist, August 24, 2024:
The Greek Coast Guard confirmed on Friday that they opened fire on a boat of Turkish migrants and killed one man, according to local media sources.
The migrants were allegedly agitating the coast guard by rocking the latter’s boat, which prompted the crew to fire “warning shots” before shooting at the migrants. In their statement, the coast guard stated that the victim, a 39-year-old man, was likely killed by one of the bullets.
Greece has faced ongoing criticism over its treatment of migrants. In April 2023, the Aegean Boat Report registered “57 illegal pushbacks in the Aegean Sea” by the nation’s coast guard. The rights organization found in that month alone, 1,711 people were “denied their right to seek asylum” and that “their human rights [were] violated by the Greek government.”
What is the difference between the right to seek asylum and the crime of sneaking into a foreign country without permission? Can someone explain that to me?
The Aegean Boat Report added that in the prior three years, Greece pushed back 58,000 migrants from Turkey in 2,167 separate cases…..
Germany's Scholz vows to increase deportations
after visit to Solingen mass stabbing site
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his government was looking at more ways to increase the rate of deportations during a visit to the site of a deadly mass stabbing carried out by a suspected Islamic State group member from Syria. Speaking during the visit, Scholz said that deportations had already increased by some two thirds compared to 2021 levels.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations on Monday during a visit to Solingen, where a deadly mass stabbing linked to the Islamic State group has emboldened the far-right opposition and stoked criticism of his government's handling of migration.
"We will have to do everything we can to ensure that those who cannot and are not allowed to stay in Germany are repatriated and deported," Scholz told reporters in the western city, where he laid a flower at the scene of the crime.
"This was terrorism, terrorism against us all," he added.
The attack, in which a 26-year-old suspected Islamic State group member from Syria is accused of killing three people, has fuelled political tensions over asylum and deportation rules ahead of three state elections next month.
The militant Islamist group claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred on Friday evening during a festival celebrating Solingen's 650-year history. Alongside the three killed, eight were injured, some seriously.
The theme of the festival was "Celebrate Diversity"!
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which campaigns for a crackdown on migration, is leading in the polls in Saxony and Thuringia, where state elections are set for Sunday, and in Brandenburg, which has its election on Sept. 22.
The AfD seized on the attack in its election campaign, with Thuringia's leading candidate for the party, Bjoern Hoecke, pitching to voters the choice of "Hoecke or Solingen".
Opinion pollsters Stefan Merz of Infratest dimap and Manfred Guellner of Forsa told Reuters the attack would be unlikely to translate into more votes for the far-right party because its supporters had already been mobilised by migration issues.
Infratest dimap's Merz cited the possibility that the centre-right CDU could benefit at the expense of Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats.
Botched deportation
The attack puts pressure on Scholz as his Social Democrats, alongside their Green and Free Democrat coalition partners, bruised from months of quarrelling, are trailing in the polls.
In a sign of tougher rhetoric, Scholz promised in October 2023 to ramp up deportations "big style" – a promise he repeated after his visit to the Solingen attack scene.
Again in June, Scholz said he would take a tougher stance on deportation after an Afghan man stabbed a police officer, who later died of his injuries, during an attack on a right-wing demonstration in the city of Mannheim.
Scholz said on Monday deportations had increased by some two thirds compared to 2021 levels. "But that is no reason for us to sit back and relax," he added, saying the government was looking at legal and practical ways to boost the numbers.
Statistica reports some 16,000 deportations in 2023, 4000 more than in 2022.
Astonishing!
Authorities had planned to deport the suspect in Friday's attack to Bulgaria last year under European Union asylum rules, according to German media. The deportation was unsuccessful because the man had not been at his refugee accommodation when authorities tried to carry out the measure, the reports said.
A government spokesperson said the deportation plan had "failed in practice" rather than on any legal basis.
So, it sounds like the police made one effort to deport the terrorist, but because he wasn't home at that moment, they forgot about him. Someone should be held responsible for that piece of extremely shoddy work that ended up with 3 people dead and 8 wounded.
(Reuters)
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