Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions
Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions
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Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions
Not sure if that will happen. Usually you have to commit pretty serious crimes to be deported as a EU citizen. What this article leaves out... Other sources accuse these protesters of being masked and storming the university with clubs and axes, intimidating staff and destroying property. I'm not sure what happened, I wasn't there. Depending on how overexaggerated that axe thing is, it could warrant a deportation. Wearing an illegal t-shirt or insulting someone should not be a reason to get someone deported who lives and works here for some time already. But the justice system is now going to handle it.
No. Other sources accuse some other protestors in this protest of doing these things.
And believe me this would make national news in Germany if they did. The depressing reality is that if you do as little as publicly suggesting Palestinians are human, you can get yourself in s lot of trouble in Germany. Authorities will claim you‘re an anti semite nazi who spreads hate speech for it. They are euphoric about the genocide while claiming it doesn‘t take place.
Fwiw, if you're part of group of protesters that arrives with [masked faces], including some people with axes, and you plan to scare the shit out of uni staff, you probably approve of the axes too, no? (Granted, I wasn't there. But that was I understood the retelling of events in Tagesspiegel had of the event today.)
-- https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/a-13468543.html
Doesn't really make the deportation orders any better in my book, but the line "they were just protesting" seems false to me.
Deportation without due process? I doubt that is compatible with EU law.
I believe technically it's not a deportation. Their stay has been terminated and at this point they've just been asked to leave, not taken into prison. That seems to be an administrative act only. So no process before a judge/court. Objecting to that is the correct first step. The whole act smells like it's unlawful.