Hate preachers of Winterthur has been creating

The former preacher of the'Only mosque had been transferred to Somalia, said the state Secretariat for Migration (SEM) at the request of the news Agency Keystone-SDA. The Somali authorities had recognized him as a Somali citizen and his Return.

The Return were a result of intensive efforts of the SEM for the determination of the nationality of the person Concerned. Since the man had no valid travel documents and in the interviews by the SEM did not cooperate, the clarification of its nationality-consuming. After the first suspected Ethiopian state could not be verified citizenship, was consulted for a possible Somali citizenship.

call to violence

In November of 2017, had condemned the district court of Winterthur, the then 25-Year-old to a conditional 18-month prison sentence for public incitement to crime or violence and repeated violence.

in Addition, the court imposed on him a ten-year national referral. The Zurich high court has confirmed the judgment of a criminal court in November 2018. Already in August 2017, the SEM had rejected an asylum application of the husband.

In detention pending Deportation

The'Only mosque is now closed, and the preacher sat since the judgment in detention pending Deportation. The efforts of the Federal government to a Deportation proved to be difficult. In addition, the case was dramatised by the Zurich-based Director of Security Mario Fehr, a strong media.

This caused a short in front of the Zurich cantonal Council elections, with criticism of Minister of justice Karin Keller-Sutter and the SEM for headlines. Fehr accused the authorities in Bern to put Ethiopia a little under pressure. He demanded, for example, Keller-Sutter to request the Ethiopian Ambassador.

Delicate Expressions

the cellar-insured Sutter, the Federal government was doing everything to find a solution. The SEM noted, for its part, it shall give the floor to individual cases, there is no information, because the public discussion of such Information could hinder the further steps in a procedure, or even prevent them.

experts explained at the time, the preacher could be may not be sent back, because he had been publicly considered to be dangerous and referred to him in the country of origin because of that danger. He could make so-called sur place grounds, said Alberto Achermann, Professor of migration law, to the "look".

Fehrs criticism has variously been interpreted as a campaign manoeuvre in the run-up to the Zurich cantonal Council elections. On demand SEM-spokesman Daniel Bach said that the SEM, as always, to give the floor to individual cases, no further information. It is to note, however, that the Return was a success due to the excellent cooperation with the police of the Kanton of Zurich. (scl/sda)

Created: 04.05.2019, 06:00 PM