According to Home Secretary Nancy Faeser, the suspected assassin von Brokstedt could have been deported under certain circumstances.
“We tried to get to him, and if we had known that he was in custody, we could have listened to him and then deported him,” said the SPD politician at the dpa editor-in-chief conference on Monday in Berlin. “We now know that there was misinformation.”
According to Faeser, the authorities have previously tried to deport the man – and they failed. “The difficulty there seemed to be that he was stateless,” said Faeser.
According to her, that would have been a process with the State of Israel and the Palestinian authorities. So far, there have only been very few returns to the Palestinian territories with Israel’s consent.
Ibrahim A. is said to have stabbed other passengers with a knife on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg on January 25. Two young people died and five others were injured, some seriously. Almost a week earlier, the 33-year-old had been released from custody in Hamburg.
It had previously become known that the file that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) created for Ibrahim A. incorrectly contained an identity card from Syria from another person. Therefore, the BAMF has meanwhile assumed that the man is a stateless Palestinian from Syria.
A Bamf department head had also stated in the interior committee of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament that Ibrahim A. himself had said after entering the country in 2014 that he came from the Gaza Strip and was stateless. (dpa)
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