Story by Karl Alpnacher, Zurich
In Switzerland, the unbelievable act in Frankfurt’s main station is just as shaky as it is in Germany. All the more so, as the perpetrator is an Eritrean, who illegally entered Switzerland in 2006, but to whom the local asylum industry (asylum organizations, competent offices and courts) has nevertheless granted a permanent right of residence. It is particularly disgusting that the forty-year-old African has deliberately chosen his victims among weaker members of our society: In addition to the eight-year-old boy, he also pushed his mother in front of the approaching train, and he also tried it with a 78-year-old woman. It is striking how the crime in the media was immediately attributed to a mental illness. Once again, it probably amounts to guilty incapacity,
A. Habtom
Coddled from left social felt
The fact that the Eritrean is deranged is likely to be true. But you should not close your eyes to the fact that all track-stoppers of recent times had a migration background. It is obvious that the Eritreans in Switzerland have problems and problems. They set out on a long, expensive journey at the time and must realize that they are not really welcome here. Because of their completely different cultural background, they are hardly integrable and far too qualified for our labor market. Absurdly, the murderer of Frankfurt has just been celebrated in a brochure of the leftist workers’ organization Solidar Suisse as an example of a successful integration.
The murder in Frankfurt once again focused the eyes of the Swiss on the problem group of Eritreans. Almost 40,000 of them live here, more than the cantonal capitals of Freiburg, Schaffhausen, Chur, Neuchâtel or Sion have inhabitants. Around 90 percent of Eritreans live on welfare. Her crime is well above average. That the Eritreans are real refugees is rightly doubted by the population. In the small African country with about six million inhabitants, there are neither acute wars nor crises. Above all, many young men want to avoid long-term military service, but desertion and refusal to work are expressly no grounds for asylum in Switzerland.
The immigrants mainly flow from Eritrea to Switzerland, because they come across an intensive network of contacts here. This was very similar in the eighties and nineties among the Tamils, of whom 50,000 live here, but which are hardly found in Austria, for example. In the first quarter of 2019, Eritrea was again the most important country of origin of all asylum seekers in Switzerland – even with 25 per cent more applications than in the last quarter of 2018. The right of residence granted by most of our Eritreans to asylum authorities has triggered a disturbing claim spiral. The asylum applications concern about 40 percent children of asylum seekers. Another almost 40 percent travel to Switzerland as a result of family reunification.
Dramatic increase
Due to the large number of Eritreans in Switzerland, it is difficult to stop the further influx. One would have to enlighten locally that basically no asylum is granted. Family reunification should be stopped, social benefits would have to be massively curtailed. Of course, the excursion from Eritrea is targeted to those countries where it is most likely that migrants will be able to stay. In Switzerland, this is especially the case because in 2005 the Asylum Appeals Commission, chaired by a Social Democratic judge, ruled that conscientious objectors were politically persecuted. From then on, the number of asylum seekers increased dramatically. However, in the new asylum law in 2013, the denial of military service by 78 percent of the electorate was explicitly denied as a reason for asylum.
A case of an Eritrean refugee family in the small village of Hagenbuch in the canton of Zurich aroused great interest in Switzerland. This community had to pay 60,000 francs a month for this one family alone, so that threatened a tax increase. The fact that Eritreans travel home for family parties or on vacation also regularly causes negative headlines. Or even for your own wedding to come back with a wife. That would hardly be possible if, as they claim, they were threatened with life and limb.
