The deportation of a clan chief from Bremen to Lebanon made headlines nationwide in 2019. A court must now decide whether the man can legally come back to Germany.
Bremen – The administrative court of Bremen deals in an oral hearing with four lawsuits of the clan chief Ibrahim Miri, who was deported to Lebanon in November 2019. All aim at a legal return or entry possibility to Germany, where his family, including his two underage children, live.
Among other things, he wants to ensure that the deportation is classified as illegal – witnesses should testify on Monday. It remains to be seen whether the lawsuits will be decided on the same day. In a lawsuit, Miri is also directed against a decision from the Bremen state immigration authority, which had imposed an entry and residence ban on him for seven years.
According to the court, he also wants to be able to enter the federal territory to visit his children, his partner and his mother. Between 1989 and 2014, Miri was legally convicted a total of 19 times in Germany, including for robbery, serious theft, stolen goods, embezzlement and drug trafficking as a gang.
He was first deported in July 2019 and then again in November 2019 after an illegal return. An asylum application was rejected. Miri had been obliged to leave the country for many years before he was deported. Bremen’s Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD) had emphasized in 2019 that the then 46-year-old would not be well advised to try an illegal re-entry into the Federal Republic, because it would be punished for several years as a repeat offender. dpa
