After attempted suicide, Germany brings Kosovo family home

Days of the 2015 welcome to Germany have already ended. Again, more expulsions are required. The municipalities, therefore, make increasingly tough decisions, say experts. The DW survey has to do with a case of a family from Kosovo. The DW posed the question to refugee helpers (a priest and a psychotherapist), lawyers and district administration. The site of the event is Alzey, the town of 18,000 people at the LaRenan PfP.

How the Kosovo family was divided.

M. S. She's out of shape. Over the coming days, her husband and their four children will be deported to Kosovo. On the night of July 15th, the 39-year-old woman drinks a ten-fold dose of Mirzap, nearly 200 tablets, a psychofarma medicine. The Kosovar ends up in the reanimation ward at Worms clinic, where they pump the dosage from the stomach. M. No survives. From her homeland in Kosovo and then from Germany, the woman suffering from depression has again attempted suicide.

The following night her husband, H.S. 46, who was tortured in Kosovo, twin children 15 years old, 11-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter were taken away by federal police, who flew them back to Kosovo. M.S. continues to be treated in hospital intensive care.

Once she gets out of the clinic, she too must return to Kosovo. In 2014 the family came to Germany illegally and has so far been allowed to stay temporarily. The family belongs to the Ashkali ethnic minority.

In the fundamental law, Article 6, paragraph 1 states: “Marital descent and family enjoy the special protection of state rule”.

refugee assistant Aleksandar Ceh is indignant

If anyone can figure out how the S. family feels, this is Aleksandar Cheh. He himself has fled as a Croat in the early 1990s to Germany, as he has to go to war in his country. He also first received temporary permission to stay. His story has been turned into the task of his life. She has been engaged for years in advice and organisation for migration and integration. For people like the Kosovo family, S. He's the last hope.

I've been working for refugees for 16 years, but such an action I've never experienced.” The Czech movement is possible to prevent the expulsion of the family, take medical anemnesia, inform the commission of specific cases, and engage lawyers. On the night of the expulsion, he calls with the Office for Foreigners, but without results.

Cheh talks to H.S. every day. The family lives in Kosovo in a barracks, the three-year-old girl with a heart defect is not well. He has also visited Mother M. S, whose condition is already improving. In similar situations, Cheh is often inclined to give up. But I can't do it, I can't let people just”, he tells us. Why a country run by the Social Democrat party acts so hard, asks the refugee deputy question: “You may think that the authorities of Baria are much more severe in driving migrants. But actually the judgments here in this region are much more restrictive. ”

The explanation of the Alzey-Worms district administration regarding the return of the S family.

In the case of this family, we are dealing with people from Kosovo who are forced to leave Germany. Those after entering Germany illegally in October 2014 did not apply for asylum, but raised health claims, for which reason they were granted temporary residence permission. Various medical incidents under foreign residence regulations were presented to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, which decided in February 2018, that there is no reason not to return home because disease is treatable there as well.

The result was a procedure to end the family's residence permit, and after hearing in March 2018, they were called out of Germany. In early May, the family said it would return voluntarily to Kosovo and applied to the IOM (International Organisation for Migration), which made a plane available for their return in mid-May. But a few days before the plane arrived, the family refused the return voluntarily, and through a lawyer applied to the Mainci Administrative Court for preventing deportation. Request denied. The request for special case treatment was also rejected.

On July 16th, the return of the family to the doctor's association was organized. Mother wasn't home. As the foreign office learned right now, it was for hospital treatment.

The deportation of the rest of the family, then at home, was carried out on the same day. The request presented in parallel for obstructing deportation to the Administrative Court of Mainci was rejected again. Mother continues to be in hospital treatment in Alzey-Worms County. The foreign office is aimed at bringing the immediate family home. ”

Lawyer Martin Malcherek: Lack of Sensability in Authorities

The Chancellor Lichte/Malcherek website says: “We engage individually, non-conventionally and with footplay for you”. It's probably Martin Malcherek, the hard leftist candidate in Mainc for the 2017 parliamentary elections, just the proper lawyer for Kosovo family S. Even though the Administrative Court in Mainc has avoided the indictment against Alzey-Worms County that finally carried out the expulsion, he says: “The family could be allowed to stay for a few more weeks until the M.S. had recovered to cope with the journey. In such a case, there was no need to go to the family with remuneration. But perhaps this was intended to fulfill political obligations. ”

As long as there are doubts about the ability to travel, expulsion is not permitted. But that rule is true in theory. Practically, it seems that more and more are being done, says Malcherek: <x0 political pressure, to present a high number of expulsions, seems to give up a differentiated verification of particular cases.” In this context, it is increasingly difficult to obtain qualified Anamnes, even in acute Sucicid cases. Doctors' “Armamnes no longer have enough authorities and courts. The obstacles are becoming more and more”, Malcherek criticises.

About 30 clients from the region have protected Malcherek in recent years. Does he have the impression that the culture of welcome has already replaced the culture of deportation? No, says Malcherek, it's even worse: these people, the situation, the Roma and the Ashkali, who live under difficult conditions, have never been welcome here. ”

Sybylle therapist Merkel fights against resistance

Sibylle Merkel is often named after her. With the psychotherapist from Alzey, she has never had a family relationship, but for her work, she needs the same values as the popular girlfriend: to listen, find solutions, and fight resistance. The latter, she says, needs more and more than that after the Bremen scandal with the Migration and Refugees Office, which had falsely provided guarantees for asylum: “After that the authorities began to reject my reports by paying only medical counters. It's like I didn't work out in the middle. ”

But doctors are not qualified for this: “A doctor of course can judge physical but not mental diseases. This is our task.” It's the people from Kosovo who go to her clinic, they're often traumatic: “I remember the case of a woman who was raped several times, or people like Mrs. M. S., which is acutely endangered by sciid. I report in my reports about this danger, yet these people are expelled. You're right. ”

Merkel's work reminds you of the fight against windmills. A brief therapy consists of 25 sessions, but very few of her patients put her through therapy. Either because the health cases no longer cover expenses or because they have a deadline for staying permits. A vicious circle, Merkel says: “How can I treat an optimially traumatic circle when the patient is constantly afraid of deportation? That's not possible! ”

Priest Joachim Schuh calls for an immigration law

Who comes as a refugee to Alzey, sooner or later ends up in Café Asyl, who helps foreigners during appearances to authorities. Here he knows priest Joachim Schuh the Evangelical church is the supporter of Cafe Asil. Practical details regarding the S. The priest does not know them, but he also thinks, that “for a family to be divided does not respond to the official standards of the office for foreigners in Alzey. ”

Schuh brings attention to what awaits the returnees in Kosovo, or what does not expect them: you cannot go to a passport office and say, here I am These people don't get support. “While those who voluntarily return receive a small financial support to cope with the first year in the country, those who are expelled are not given help.

“We need an immigration law, through which the causes of emigrant” can be fought, the priest calls. It is not a solution that politics avoids this law, while authorities under the government are forced to make decisions that are not in favor of the affected. “to just be a carelessness. And I want this to stop happening here as long as I'm a priest”.

Lawyer Reinhard Kirpes does not consider Kosovo a safe place

A family should not be dissolved this way. The European Convention of Human Rights also prohibits this”, notes Reinhard Kirpes. The lawyer in Ofenburg has a lot of work, he knows many similar cases and specialises in Kosovo. In 1999, shortly after the armed conflict, Kirpes visited the region for the first time.

Since then it goes at least once a year to Kosovo and tries to have its Chancellorship in southern Germany to achieve guaranteeing staying in Germany under humanitarian law for traumatised people. This is getting harder and harder. “In the context of the current policy towards foreigners, that doesn't surprise me”, says Kirpes. “20 years ago, even ten years ago, and humanitarian-related permission was given to Germany, but the method of action has now been roughed up, not only with the arrival of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. ”

Early 2015 Kosovo was declared a safe place. “of course there is no longer political persecution as in the 1990s”, says the lawyer, “but for certain population groups such as Sinti, Roma and homosexuals Kosovo is not a safe orgy country”. However, the chance to gain a fair stay in Germany is almost zero. Kosovars are generally considered economic refugees.

9.22 persons from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro have sought asylum last year in Germany -- one-tenth of the number that came in 2015. Only 264 were allowed to stay. “People who came in after August 31, 2015, as asylum seekers, have no chance of staying here. It's just those who were here before. “Reinhard Kirpes does not have much illusions, that Germany will pursue a less severe line in the future: “