Germany and It's Fakes Problem

Shortly after 19 December 2016....the next little interesting twist to immigration and migration fell into play within Germany.

The Christmas Market episode in Berlin unfolded....with Anis Amri (a Tunisian).

It took the cops about three weeks to come forward and admit that Amri existed as 14 different people in Germany....collecting on Social money in various forms....in various states.

Yes, fourteen different IDs.

At the time....the attitude by the Germans was that this was simply not possible.  Within a couple of weeks....they admitted that roughly 3,000 cases of fake ID were noted by the cops from all sixteen German states for 2016.

Focus wrote up this short but interesting report today.

If you go and ask for the data...from 2013 to present....there are around 2-million refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants listed as 'incoming'.  The validity of the 2-million?  What the authorities will say is that they've made this effort to use fingerprints to ensure it's correct.  At some point six months ago, they came to admit that they thought they were completely done....then discovered a whole bunch of folks who never showed up to get fingerprinted.

What Focus discusses is a public TV effort to investigate the whole business.  Counterfeit passport networks exist all across Europe now.  For 500 Euro....you can buy a fake Syrian passport.  They exist in Greece...Germany....and so on.

As one German criminal investigator noted....there could be millions with a false ID.  He even noted that there are people out there with more than the 14 fake IDs that Amri was carrying around.

All this technology to catch onto this stuff?  Out of the 5,500 offices in Germany that ought to have the equipment.....there are just 250 of them equipped.  What the authorities will admit is that roughly forty-odd folks are caught monthly with the 250 systems that are working.

How many fakes are in the system?  You could sit and guess but it's just a guess.  Some guy could be registered in Munich, with some fake wife and fake kid....then registered again in Koln with just a fake kid....then registered by himself only in Saarbrucken.  Other than checking the mail and keeping a bogus address in each state....there could be a forty-thousand guys pulling this off.  And that only includes Germany itself....the same crowd could be in various other countries as well.