It's not front-page news, and probably not going to be mentioned much over German public TV....but the Interior Ministry (run by a CSU politician)....has this draft plan of getting Syrian criminals in German prisons/jails out.
The basic story? There are x-number of Syrians who've done something to get time in German jails. The Interior Ministry wants a policy that if you'd sign documentation and agree to return to Syria....they'd let you out, and fly you into Syria.
Now, I will admit....there's nothing on the books currently to make 'deal-making' like this legal. And how they get back to Syria is a big question-mark. I kinda doubt that Syria will openly accept these folks....without some kind of cash involved.
The chief problem? Well....the coalition partner (the SPD) isn't happy about deal-making like this, and the opposition parties are likely to raise a fuss as well.
How many would accept the deal? That's another big unknown. You might only find forty-odd folks who think it's worth accepting the pardon and re-location.
If you were to openly discuss this with working-class Germans? I would take a guess that more than half of them would readily agree that it's a workable idea.
The odds that this will come up in the coalition process after the election? I'd give it 90-percent odds that it's going to be in the one-hundred topics of discussion.
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