News from the Borders 05.04.2024

Erik Marquardt on April 5, 2024

Photo: Erik Marquardt
  • According to British Prime Minister Sunak, border protection is more important than membership of international courts. Many now fear that the UK could withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights in order to enforce its radical deportation policy. To the Handelsblatt article.
  • In order to "optimize" deportations, the CDU-led Ministry of the Interior in Brandenburg wants to lure people to immigration authorities and social welfare offices under false pretences in order to arrest them there, according to a draft. We Greens think this is inhumane. Read more in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  • Worried that the mental state of a Gambian man could be a danger to himself, his girlfriend called the emergency services last weekend. A short time later, the police killed 46-year-old Lamin Touray with eight shots. The taz spoke to several eyewitnesses.