After a fatal knife attack on a 61-year-old in Sarstedt, Lower Saxony, the Hanover Administrative Court has announced details of the suspect’s asylum procedure. After being deported to Poland and later re-entering Germany, he was tolerated in this countrythe court announced on Friday. The 35-year-old Iraqi is said to have fatally injured the operator of a refugee shelter on Monday.
According to the court, the man First asylum application in 2017 in Germany. However, since Poland was responsible for the asylum procedure, his application was rejected by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf). He was then deported to Poland.
After his re-entry, he presented Apply for asylum again in 2022. This was a so-called second application. This application was also rejected by the BAMF, and the Deportation to Iraq threatened.
However, the man appealed against this. The administrative court then suspended the decision in expedited proceedings in September 2022. The reason given was that the BAMF had Documents from Poland on the outcome of the asylum procedure there A decision on a second application therefore requires a completed asylum procedure in a safe third country – in this case in Poland.
The BAMF then submitted the documents in December 2022. Two months earlier, however, according to the court, the Minden Administrative Court had submitted the regulations of the so-called second application procedure to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for review. It is unclear when the ECJ will decide. Against this background, the Hanover Administrative Court considers the current Procedure not yet “ready for decision”it said.
According to investigators, the 35-year-old Iraqi is said to have died on Monday stabbed the 61-year-old after an argument and fatally injured him The man was the operator of a hotel used as refugee accommodation. The motive was initially unclear. The 35-year-old was taken into custody. The investigation is ongoing. (AFP)
