Germany rejecting 95% of Syrian asylum claims – media
Published 10 Apr, 2026 16:18 | Updated 10 Apr, 2026 17:20
Germany has rejected 95% of all new asylum applications from Syrian migrants following a policy reassessment of the Middle Eastern country, according to media reports, citing an official document.
The change represents a stark reversal from the peak of the influx in 2014-2015, when recognition rates for Syrians frequently exceeded 90%. Germany emerged as a primary destination for Syrians fleeing war, driven by the open-door policy of then-Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The country has since become home to one of the largest Syrian diasporas in Europe, with estimates putting the population at close to 1 million.
The figures come from a German government reply to a parliamentary inquiry by Left party lawmaker Clara Bunger, reported by multiple media outlets on Thursday.
According to the document, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is now applying stricter case-by-case assessments. In October 2025, the BAMF ruled on 3,134 Syrian asylum applications, granting protection to just 26 applicants across all categories. Recognition rates reportedly remain higher for some minorities, including Yazidis, Christians, and Alawites.
The policy shift came after former jihadist commander Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in 2024, toppling Syria’s longtime leader, Bashar Assad. The German authorities argue that broad protection is no longer justified, with decisions increasingly based on individual risk rather than general insecurity.
After meeting al-Sharaa in Berlin in late March, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said up to 80% of Syrians living in Germany could return home over the next three years, describing it as part of a joint effort to support reconstruction.
Merz later backtracked, saying the figure was proposed by the Syrian side – a claim that al-Sharaa said was exaggerated and did not reflect his position.
The government’s shift in migration policy comes amid pressure from right-wing parties, including the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which portrays migrants, particularly from outside Europe, as a burden on public services and a driver of crime and social strife.
It also follows a series of violent crimes involving asylum seekers, including a 2024 knife attack in Solingen in which a Syrian national fatally stabbed three people and injured eight others.
Moroccan Muslim in Spain Says ‘All Christians Must Die,’ Attacks Three Roma With an Axe
In southern Spain, a Moroccan in the country as a seasonal worker attacked three people on the street with an axe. All three were Roma (Gypsies). The attacker thought they were Christians. As he later explained his motives to the police, he “felt the call of Allah” and that “all Christians must die.”
Devout Muslims are easily triggered into extreme violence and feel fully justified in doing so.
Moroccan Man Arrested After Axe Attack on Three Neighbors in Granada, Spain: ‘All Christians Must Die,'
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A shocking incident occurred on Monday, April 6, 2026, in the town of Montefrío (Granada, Andalusia), where a 45-year-old man of Moroccan origin attacked three local residents with an axe.
The Attack
The assault took place around 11:00 a.m. on Fuente y Prado street. The victims — two women and a 69-year-old man, all of Roma (gitano) ethnicity — were walking along the street when the attacker approached them without warning and assaulted them with an axe.
He first struck the elderly man, who tried to defend himself with his walking cane. He then attacked the two women. One suffered a head trauma, while the other sustained severe hand injuries, including the amputation of a finger. One of the female victims was seriously injured.
Emergency services, including a medical helicopter, attended to the wounded, who were transferred to hospital.
The Suspect and His Statements
The attacker, a Moroccan citizen working as a seasonal farm laborer (temporero) in the area, fled the scene. He hid among olive groves and caused a minor traffic accident with no injuries during his escape. The Guardia Civil arrested him around midday.
According to several media outlets, during his transfer to police custody, the detainee stated that he had “felt the call of Allah” and that “all Christians must die.”
The authorities are investigating the case as a crime of grievous bodily harm with possible radical motives. The investigation is ongoing….
The integration of this large community presents persistent difficulties. Although the majority of resident Moroccans contribute through work and live orderly lives, real problems are documented in various reports and incidents…
This Moroccan would-be murderer of Christians (“Christians must die”) did “contribute through work” and lived an “orderly life”… until he didn’t. Then he heard in his head what his religion taught him: that Christians were, like all non-Muslims, “the most vile of created beings,” and unless they accepted their status as dhimmis, should be killed. Voices in his head. Memories of Qur’anic verses and sermons against Christians at Friday Prayers, that he heard as a child and heard still in the makeshift mosques in Spain he attended, or in the mosques of Morocco, whenever he, a temporary worker, returned to his home country.
Muslim migrants in Spain commit crimes far more often than do the indigenous Christians. They are “over-represented” especially in crimes of violence — robberies accompanied by violence, random assaults on the indigenous Spanish “just to teach them who is boss,” sexual assaults including rape, and murder.
The indigenous Spanish resent the amounts spent on social services for the nearly one million Muslim migrants now in Spain, including subsidized housing and free medical care for many, leaving less for themselves. Those migrants are taught in their mosques what the authorities claim are “extremist” ideologies — really, it is simply orthodox Islam, and the name “radical” is given to those Muslim migrants who choose to act on what Islam teaches.
How are Spanish authorities, meanwhile, supposed to monitor their huge migrant population for “radicalization”? Do they have Arabic-speaking personnel who can monitor everything said by the imams in the mosques? Or who can monitor the social media posts of all these immigrants for signs of “radicalization”? And what makes the Spanish officials think that if they did have such personnel,, the Muslims would allow them into their mosques? Wouldn’t it make more sense to simply study the contents of the Qur’an, and the most authoritative hadith, those compiled by Bukhari and Muslim, which together are surely the surest guides to Muslim attitudes toward Christians?
Given how many problems the Muslims from North Africa are causing in Spain, why shouldn’t Madrid choose to keep the North Africans out, and to replace them with temporary workers from Central and South America who, both as Catholics and as native speakers of Spanish, would have little difficulty integrating into the Spanish milieu?
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