A German court has halted the arrest of a Palestinian criminal who had already been deported but came back to Germany.
The procedure highlights the failures of the EU’s asylum system, as well as Germany’s incompetence in handling the influx of migrants.
The 21-year-old man from Gaza was sent back to Greece in February under the so-called Dublin Regulation—which determines that the first EU country a migrant arrives in is responsible for examining their asylum application—but recently returned to Germany.
The man has been involved in criminal activities, and is a member of the the Barbakh clan, which—according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center—endorses the Palestinian terror group Hamas, incites violence at pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and glorifies terrorism online.
The police tried to arrest the man, so that he could be deported again, but a court in Berlin blocked the move, citing EU laws which state that a detained person awaiting extradition cannot be held in a prison for ordinary criminals.
The court ruling was challenged and the procedure could drag on, allowing the criminal to simply disappear out of sight of the authorities.
