O’Brien, one of the Irish citizens, is the only one of the four whose deportation order included a charge – the accusation that he called a police officer a “fascist” – that has been brought before a criminal court in Berlin, where he was acquitted. The battle played out between bureaucrats from the branches of the Senate of Berlin, the state’s executive governing body under the authority of Kai Wegner, the mayor, who is in turn elected by the city’s parliamentary body. “In coordination with Mr. Mazanke, I inform you that I cannot comply with your directive of December 20, 2024 — to conduct hearings for the individuals listed under a) to c) and subsequently determine loss of freedom of movement — for legal reasons,” Buhlmann wrote, referring to the three citizens of EU states as cases A to C. Buhlmann wrote that, though the police reports “suggest a potential threat to public order from the individuals concerned, there are no final criminal convictions to substantiate a sufficiently serious and actual threat.”
Author: Hanno Hauenstein
Published at: 2025-03-31 22:55:32
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