The Assembalance of a Demonstration

In Germany, there's this general rule by the police.  If you don't register the demonstration....the cops quickly arrive and deny you the right to the demonstration.

I know....it's a silly rule, but it kinda lays out what is going to be acceptable.  They probably aren't going to allow you to do this in a rush-hour period, and assembling on a autobahn just isn't going to happen.

So apparently this week, an assembalance of a demonstration started up....with African refugee folks in Wiesbaden (maybe 30 to 40).  It appears no one did the registration business, and the cops came quickly on the scene to lay out the basic rules on this.  The assembled group at that point, apparently drifted off and that was the end of any real demonstration. 

My German wife had an associate who had some second knowledge of the event, and there was this one funny part about the demonstration.

This group (all refugees from Africa) wanted the German authorities  (this was the intention of the demonstration) on expectations dropped for them identifying their nationality, or providing an ID for asylum paperwork. They basically figured out that it didn't matter that you travel by foot across half-of-Africa, and walked a 1,000 kilometers from Spain through France, to reach Germany.....you still had to do the paperwork for asylum, and your odds of passing the visa evaluation are not that great.

So in their mind, without the ID requirement, there is no visa evaluation, and you (the German authorities) just hand them a plain regular visa-slip.  In simple terms.....they have zero intention of ever going back to the homeland.

Last night, via public TV (ZDF), there was a 8-minute piece where a German journalist went to the coast of Spain and tracked the new African-trail which leads from the coast where they land on a small wooden boat they bought.....with the help of the Spanish Red Cross, to make their way through Spain, and reach the French border.

Then in France, the French Red Cross steps in, and provides more aid, to get them all the way to the German border.

The EU rules?  It's funny about the rules.....where you land, is where you document yourself, and where you 'stay'.  You don't cherry-pick your land.  In this case, they are avoiding Spain and France....mostly because Germany has the premium benefits.

I can understand the perception here....there's a ton of effort to get across the bulk of Africa, then cross the Med, then go through Spain and France, to reach Germany.   None of these people have any intention of going back.  Yet the Germans have that thing about paperwork, and evaluations.

If you don't speak the language....show no real work or job skills....your only fallback position is to be from some land with a civil war or claim you are gay and harassed in your homeland.  Beyond that....evaluations rarely ever get approved.