Eritrea is a dictatorship, from which people flee. For no African country so many refugees come to Germany. But just in Germany succeeds the dictatorship seems to collect secret tax. And there are, according to research from Munich report suspicions that pro-regime interpreters are active even in German offices. And right now is to flow from the EU and also from Germany to Eritrea lot of money.
“Our country is hell for the youth, the country they let you down. Therefore, they would rather die in the Mediterranean, but to stay there. “
“Thousands leave the country unaccompanied children, old people, women.”
Eritrea, a dictatorship in the Horn of Africa. Here, people are often forced to years of brutal military service. For no other African country so many refugees come to us. Currently, Eritrea is a country of origin in sixth place.
In Soest we meet different generations of Eritreans fled. They are all here glad to have found refuge in Germany. But thus they did not expect: The arm of the regime of their home is long and reaches as far as Germany.
“That’s a shame, Germany still has a good government, why they can not control the spies? Perhaps you can not control the whole country, but you must be careful. I have asked the German authorities to pay attention. Because every Eritreans has reason to fear coming to Germany or to Europe. “
Eritrean spies in Germany? All here confirm this round: In German offices there are loyal to the regime translator. Can this be?
We make an Eritrean interpreter. Freweyni Habtemariam translated for many years to try and authorities for the Eritrean official language Tigrinya into German.
Freweyni Habtemariam, Eritrean Initiative for Dialogue and Cooperation eV: “Many refugees complain and say to a pressure exerted on them, they should not say this and that, that is not the regime as illustrating how it is in reality. The second is that you can distort the content. And I also have heard about a minister who worked here who did not know that I am the opposition, one has to know each other at work, and he said, yes, before the Germans get to read, we get it indeed sent by the interpreters! “
Interpreters, they have a crucial role for the Eritrean refugees. Because you translate if the asylum application is submitted to the Authority.
We ask the competent Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. Please write to us. You is not known as the general problem. “W Eder we this evidence from the field offices or by third parties before.”
But there are these instructions: report München is scientific work that will soon appear in the journal “Modern languages”. The title: “Tigrinya interpreters in hearings before the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.”
It says an interpreter itself:
“It does not care whether the truth will be translated or not.”
And continue on the regime faithful interpreter:
“There are many. You try to get information. (…) The name, the place and how he came from. (…) They will ask the family money. “
The assumption: The regime in Eritrea wants to monitor the refugees in Germany. And to even collect money from them – apparently for some time.
Freweyni Habtemariam, Eritrean Initiative for Dialogue and Cooperation eV: “Many are forced to submit their income levels and not from the net, but from the two percent gross is withdrawn. And these 2% are added on, is for the infrastructure in Eritrea. “
Uwe Kekeritz, B’90 / Grüne, spokesperson for development policy of the parliamentary group: “It is my view, a failure of our policies here locally. It can not be that on social assistance, the people get a part of it is cut off and therefore, in principle, the regime will be financed. “
We would have liked to talk with the Eritrean Embassy About this control and the interpreters. We had them already requested days ago, writing and then again personally. It is said that the responsible employee was not there.
What is the Federal Government to Eritrea? What keeps Development Minister Müller of the interpreters and of the tax?
Report München: “Have you heard already, how should one deal with it?”
Gerd Müller, CSU, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development: “In is spoken, and the course I will raise. This goes so far that the Eritreans living here have to transfer compulsory levies home. These are unacceptable conditions. “
In December Development Minister Müller will travel to Eritrea. The opposition is strongly opposed:
Uwe Kekeritz, B’90 / Grüne, spokesperson for development policy of the parliamentary group ::
“It’s definitely scandalous. Because we have many years had no contact with this country, because it is simply not acceptable from the human rights aspects that we really operate with such a dictator shops or development cooperation. Now that the refugee problem Europe and Germany reached, we are suddenly willing to communicate with dictators and negotiate. “
Minister Müller sees it differently want to solve the problems on the spot:
Gerd Müller, CSU, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development:
“Ten thousand Eritreans, mostly young men, have come this year to Germany. We do not want that there are 50,000 or 100,000 and that’s why we have to go to Eritrea. The President say it has brutal consequences search for his country and for a perspective. “
Eritrea is now receive 200 million euros for this “perspective”. Money to actually help the local people. But is it realistic? Betiel Berhe is involved in United4Eritrea. The organization wants a democratic change in the country. We show her the interview with the Minister.
Betiel Berhe, organization United4Eritrea: “If politics does not change the situation in the country, then people will continue to flee. And it can development cooperation and the money that the government will speak shoved down your throat, do not change. “
Perhaps we should be trying to get the influence of the regime in Germany under control once.
