The chaos in Germany over the expulsion of "the former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden"

This should have been a resuscitating sample of determination in the German suppression policy. But it turned out to be a chaos, which embarrassed the German authorities.

In the center is a 42-year-old Tunisian from Bochum, who according to the German press was the bodyguard of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks in the United States. United. This Sami A., who for many years has successfully opposed the expulsion, was Friday morning by German police brought by chartered plane to Tunisia. But it soon turned out that it was despite an explicit judicial prohibition of his deportation.

The judge called the deportation in violation of the law and now demands that the man, considered potentially dangerous in Germany, be sent to Germany brought back. After all, in a constitutional state, the law applies to all. "Here is the rule of law in his shirt," said the court spokesman. But for a part of Germany, the inability to deport the man shows that the rule of law does not work.

For years, the Boulevard Diary Bild campaigned for the deportation of Sami A. If we are the tenor to succeed in expelling this man, what is our migration policy ? Horst Seehofer (CSU) promised to work on the case when he took office as Minister of the Interior

The only problem is that A. when returning to Tunisia, according to several German judges, he risks being tortured. With this argument, expulsion could always be avoided.

If we can not even expel this man, the tenor is, what is our entire migration policy?

Sami A. came to Germany in 1997 as a student. In 1999 and 2000, he reportedly was in Pakistan and Afghanistan, having received military training and being active for some time as bin Laden's security agent.

In Germany he would have been an active Salafist preacher. In 2005, his residence permit was not renewed, an asylum application was rejected in 2006 – but expulsion to Tunisia remained impossible all these years.

At the end of June, the Immigration Service found that the situation in Tunisia had improved. the torture must be feared and can therefore be put on the plane. Bochum and the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia prepared for the expulsion (in Germany, the federal states are responsible for it)

Shadi Abdalla was formerly the bodyguard of ;Osama bin Laden. He was arrested in Germany in 2002, during the preparation of an attack against Jewish targets. Read about it: "I was bin Laden's bodyguard"

It remains to be seen whether only bureaucratic incapacity or political sabotage have led to the deportation despite the judicial prohibition. Seehofer denies having lobbied.

Thursday night, the court ruled that the prohibition of expulsion was still in effect. Earlier, the court of the city of Bochum had demanded that this does not create a fait accompli, as long as the court's decision was not received.

Thursday evening at 19:20 the judge had made the judgment ready to be sent to the mail room. But it was only the next morning at 8:10 somebody to send the document by fax, in Germany still a widely used means of communication. More than an hour earlier, at 6:53, the plane with Sami A on board had already taken off.