Germany Says Overestimated refugees with Fake Syrian Passports, 'only' eight percent fake passports. (naharnet).
The proportion of people entering Germany with fake
Syrian passports is far less than the 30 percent announced by the
interior minister in September, the government has said.
Germany has to date maintained an open-door policy for
Syrians escaping their country's bloodshed, giving them "primary
protection" -- the highest status for refugees.
Among other benefits, this status includes a three-year residence permit and family reunification.
The policy has sparked controversy, heightened after
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in September that up to 30
percent of people were found coming into Germany with false Syrian
passports and actually came from other nations.
He said the figures were based on estimates from people working on the ground.
But in response to a question from the left-wing Die
Linke party, the government said in a written note obtained by Agence
France Presse late Monday that only eight percent of the 6,822 Syrian
passports examined by authorities between January and October were
actually found to be fake.
Die Linke lawmaker Ulla Jelpke slammed the minister
saying: "Instead of looking into a crystal ball... the minister should
lean towards facts and reality."
Germany is Europe's top destination for refugees, most
of whom travel through Turkey and the Balkans, and expects more than one
million arrivals this year. Hmmm.....So if you take 25,000 refugees 2,000 have false passports.....i feel much safer now.
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