About four weeks ago, I essayed a piece over a Lebanese crime gang boss in Germany.....who had been deported back in the summer, but had returned in the past couple of weeks....saying his life was in danger in Beirut, so Germany had to accept his asylum application (in Bremen).
To bring you up to date now with the latest, his application went to the top of the file, and BamF (the agency for asylum applications) failed him. It was in record time.....less than a week. To be honest, it's a huge negative for the Interior Ministry for this application to occur, and having the guy arrive back in Germany.
But in the mix of things.....BamF had made a mistake or two in the disapproval process....giving the guy a full chance at an appeal.
Appeals can take a year or two....but again, it went to the top of the pile, and yesterday....the court rendered it's verdict....the appeal is disapproved.
In their wording, they said he could be swiftly removed now. There's supposedly a jet (private operation) reserved and the cops intend to deliver him into Beirut in short fashion.
The end? Well.....I have my doubts.
If you look at his record....he's been on the police files since 1989....having been caught and convicted 19 times (theft, drug sales, robbery, etc). He hasn't allowed the German legal system to hold him down. The Germans oddly enough, have never desired to put him in for significant time....they just want him to leave the country.
So all of this brings up the problem of asylum travel and open borders. The present system (up for decades now) has glaring holes in it, and it's becoming more of a public topic for corrective actions. The problem is....no one wants the old 1980s border police situation where you had to identify yourself each time you crossed the border.
In the case of this Lebanese crime boss, I would fully expect him to be back in Germany within a month after arriving in Beirut. This is his 'backyard' and 'home'. The German legal system has never been able to deal with the guy, and he feels 'safe' here. For the coalition government, it means trouble in explaining their security situation to the general public.
Update: Sunday morning (24 hours later). The failed asylum-crime boss was scheduled to be flown out on Mon/Tuesday. Well....at some point on Friday, two associates came to the jail-house to visit their 'friend'. Cops wanted to pat both down....with one guy going ballistic after they found a knife on him. This guy goes and makes a number of death threats on the cops (bad sign of things to come). He gets banned from the visit. The cops decide, based on Interior Ministry advice....not to waste time, and put the failed asylum crime boss on a Learjet Saturday morning, and send him straight back to Beirut. His lawyer is visibly upset, thinking he had the weekend to work on more appeals and delay the deportation.
The end? I highly doubt it, and I'd go and predict the guy is back in Germany within the next week.....maybe this time.....undercover.
2nd Update: Via N-TV this morning. What they are reporting on this failed asylum crime boss....now deported....is that there is going to be two bills handed to the court.
The first is for the July deportation and they seek 65k Euro for all the hassle, travel cost, etc....for that deportation. The second is for the deportation Saturday and the associated cost....figure this to be upwards to 30,000 Euro minimum (especially for the private jet being hired).
How to collect this? Well, the judge will hand it to the police to find property owned by this guy in Germany (cars, watches, houses, etc). Anything confiscated, will be put to an auction and the money forwarded to BamF for the deportation process. So, the current bill....up around 100,000 Euro.
Private bank accounts? No one brought this up, but you'd have to figure with the drug shipping and distribution business....he has to have a fair sum stashed away somewhere. Odds of getting the money back? Unknown. But it does present an interesting twist to the whole story. If he returns again? I'm guessing they will seek a bond from him for any new situation, and require him to settle up before new paperwork is accomplished.
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