Press release
of November, 11th 1998
Implementation of the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers in Berlin:
Refugees are now radically mobbed to leave
Scandalous orders of the authorities one after the other
PRO ASYL: Law encourages authorities to bloody-minded behaviour
Implementation of the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers in Berlin
Es macht ihn ein Geschwätz nicht satt (FR 13.11.1998)
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The Nationwide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL and the Refugee Council of Berlin accuse the Berlin Social Administration, to use since the entry into force of the Act on Benefits for Asylum the new legal situation in order to cover refugees with an immense number of scandalous orders of cutbacks and dismissals. It is the attempt, to return refugees by starving. Therefore the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers must me put pressingly on the test bed of the Red-Green government coalition in Bonn in order to abolish it. Representatives of the Refugee Council will at a press meeting introduce the current development in Berlin today.
Background of all is the recently restricted § 1 of the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers, according to that two groups have only right to the „essentially required“: Individuals, having entered (allegedly) Germany in order to obtain social benefits pursuant to this act and individuals, who can’t be removed from the territory for reasons they (allegedly) are responsible to.
With grounds being wide of the mark and in some cases missing at all now the Berlin social authorities manipulate refugees in large numbers into these categories.
