Greens sharply criticize Schuster's push for detention on departure

"This is the language and thinking of the right"

Schubert criticized the minister's choice of words and the core of the proposal. "People who are allegedly 'dancing around on our noses' should be locked up - that is the language and thinking of the right, not of a democratic constitutional state," she explained. There are "clear rules under European and constitutional law as to when and under what conditions people may be taken into custody pending deportation". These rules exist "not as a joke, but to protect human dignity and freedom".

Schuster's proposal to amend the European Convention on Human Rights was also rejected by Schubert. "It is sheer nonsense to claim that a Saxon Minister of the Interior can override EU law or the European Convention on Human Rights," she explained.

Schuster had spoken out in favor of amending the European Convention on Human Rights. This is because it is practically accompanied by an absolute ban on deportation. "We now have court rulings that make it impossible for me to deport people to some European countries - for example to Belgium - because the asylum accommodation there is allegedly not reasonable," said the minister.