The German Government will toughen its policy against hate on the internet by expelling migrants from the country who celebrate terrorist acts onlineaccording to a reform presented on Wednesday as a reaction to the attack that left one police officer dead and several injured in Mannheim (west).
The bill was presented this Wednesday by the head of the Interior, social democrat Nancy Faeserat a meeting of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet.
Previously, Faeser defended this Wednesday in a statement to the newspapers of the communication group ‘Funke Mediengruppe’ that “anyone who does not have a German passport and glorify terrorist acts here he must—whenever possible—be expelled and deported.”
These words of Faeser were seconded by the vice chancellor and minister of Economythe green politician Robert Habeck, who stated after the Council of Ministers meeting that “whoever mocks the basic liberal order by celebrating terrible murders loses his right to stay” in Germany.
“Whoever approves terrorist acts and promotes them must leave,” because the “State has a serious interest in deporting them,” according to Habeck, who recalled that “Islam belongs to Germany, not Islamism“.
‘Islamist agitators’
For the German Interior Minister, “Islamist agitators who mentally live in the Stone Age have no place in our country.”
“We are taking strong measures against Islamist hate crimes and anti-Semites on the Internet,” Faeser added.
‘They justify terrorism’
The German Minister of the Interior made these statements before pointing out that in Germany there were not only individuals who celebrated on social networks “the barbaric terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel” but also “the terrible Islamist knife attack in Mannheim where the young police officer Rouven Laur died.”
The attack that occurred a month ago also left six injuredincluding the aggressor, a 25-year-old Afghan who broke into a public event of an organization critical of Islam.
After October 7th
Since the attack by the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas against Israel on October 7, the German authorities They have intervened to delete more than 10,700 messages on the Internet related to hate on networks, according to data from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA, for its acronym in German).
Later, at a press conference, he addressed criticism that his plans may be in conflict. with the right to freedom of expression.
“It is not like that because we are talking about clear cases of hate speech and glorification of terrorism, which are crimes contemplated in the criminal code. “These are not cases in which someone ‘likes’ someone or another message.”
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