Hans-Georg Maaßen, had been mixed in November as the protection of the Constitution President-in retirement. Now he logs on again and criticized in the Hungarian television, Merkel’s refugee policy.

It was a great “pressure of Immigration” to Europe and Germany from the Middle East and Africa. The necessary precautions had not been taken to minimize this. The Ex-the protection of the Constitution President Hans-Georg Maaßen said in an Interview with Hungarian state television channel M1, the recorded in Berlin and on Monday night in Hungary was broadcast.

With a view to the beginning of the refugee crisis in 2015, said Maaßen, to him at that time was already clear that such a large number of people could not be in Germany integrated.

Maaßen feared increase in refugee numbers

The “sluice” to be more open, although now, less people coming in, said Maaßen. And more: “I see in other continents, the Middle East, and Africa, a large refugee flood threatens Europe and Germany.”

in its own words, the former President of the Federal constitutional protection feared figures in an increase of the Refugee: With great concern, he can see that, in the course of this year or in the next year, many more people could come to Germany.

the protection of the EU working outside the limits, he could not recognize – in the same way that the EU border protection Agency Frontex and the national border authorities had taken action.

in Principle, one would have to say that you should defend the external borders of Europe. “This means that only those should come to Europe and Germany, which are really in need of asylum, and have a right to stay here. And not to those fleeing poverty.”

Hungary’s Prime Minister Orban is considered to be critics of the European refugee policy.

Important issue for Orban’s EU election campaign

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is one within the EU, one of the harshest critics of the refugee policy of the Federal government. To announced the launch of the EU election campaign in Hungary a few days ago, Orban, to make the topic of “Migration” in the center.

Maaßen had been transferred in November of last year, the German interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, in temporary retirement. Maaßens Statements about the violent riots in Chemnitz at the end of August 2018, at which a man had been killed, had previously led to considerable controversy within the Federal government.

Maaßen exercises in the Hungarian TV criticism of Merkel
Clemens Verenkotte, ARD Wien
11.04.2019 15:33 PM

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