A Girl’s Killing Puts Germany’s Migration Policy on Trial
- 6 years ago
A Girl’s Killing Puts Germany’s Migration Policy on Trial
And when something like this murder happens, it confirms
that feeling." Ask the Germans paying their respects at the ad hoc memorial for the girl who was killed — a sea of candles and messages and photos of her with friends — and they will reel off a list of crimes committed by migrants: a German woman who was raped by a Sudanese migrant in the nearby town of Speyer a few days earlier, a nother woman who was raped and strangled by an Afghan in Freiburg just over a year ago.
that It makes you think,
The death in Kandel, in southwestern Germany, on Dec. 27 has traumatized this sleepy town of barely 10,000 inhabitants, not just because both the suspect and the victim were just 15 years old and went to the local school,
but also because the boy is an Afghan migrant and the girl was German.
From the moment Germany opened its doors to more than a million migrants two years ago, prominent episodes like the Berlin Christmas market attack
and the New Year’s molestation and rapes in Cologne have stoked German insecurities.
Christian Pfeiffer said that The paradox is that Germany is still a very safe country, much safer than even a few years ago,
Reported crimes have edged up over the past two years,
but over all, violent crimes have been trending downward for a decade in Germany, which remains one of the safest countries in Europe.
And when something like this murder happens, it confirms
that feeling." Ask the Germans paying their respects at the ad hoc memorial for the girl who was killed — a sea of candles and messages and photos of her with friends — and they will reel off a list of crimes committed by migrants: a German woman who was raped by a Sudanese migrant in the nearby town of Speyer a few days earlier, a nother woman who was raped and strangled by an Afghan in Freiburg just over a year ago.
that It makes you think,
The death in Kandel, in southwestern Germany, on Dec. 27 has traumatized this sleepy town of barely 10,000 inhabitants, not just because both the suspect and the victim were just 15 years old and went to the local school,
but also because the boy is an Afghan migrant and the girl was German.
From the moment Germany opened its doors to more than a million migrants two years ago, prominent episodes like the Berlin Christmas market attack
and the New Year’s molestation and rapes in Cologne have stoked German insecurities.
Christian Pfeiffer said that The paradox is that Germany is still a very safe country, much safer than even a few years ago,
Reported crimes have edged up over the past two years,
but over all, violent crimes have been trending downward for a decade in Germany, which remains one of the safest countries in Europe.