Merkel's Refugee Stance Risks Unravelling After Passport Find

[Purveyor]

Chancellor Angela Merkel faced renewed pressure over her open-door policy for refugees after a statement from Greek authorities raised the possibility that one of the Paris suicide bombers was a Syrian who entered the European Union posing as a refugee.

A Syrian passport found next to the corpse of the attacker was recorded by Greek officials on the island of Leros on Oct. 3, Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas said in a statement. Toskas said he didn’t know whether the passport was later processed by authorities elsewhere in Europe.

While it’s possible that the passport was a counterfeit or illegally obtained on the black market after it was recorded in Greece, any suggestion that the killers gained entry under the auspices of seeking asylum would add to Merkel’s dilemma over granting access to those fleeing war zones in the Middle East. Already under fire at home for allowing an estimated 1 million asylum seekers into Germany this year, her policy is at further risk of fraying following Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris that prompted European capitals to go into high security alert.

“Some populists will try to abuse this and say, ‘This is what you get when you let people from this region in,”’ Jan Techau, director of Carnegie Europe in Brussels, said by phone. In Germany, “the security situation in the Middle East will become a much bigger issue,” he said.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-14/merkel-s-open-arms-refugee-stance-tested-as-europe-goes-on-alert

[Fred Sanders]

1. Abuse of the word "unravelling".....over one passport?? What connection is there to the millions of

refugees who have done absolutely nothing but try to survive after fleeing....where ISIS is.

Not to mention carrying your own passport around while doing a crime of mass murder is.....suspicious.

[CJCRANE]

2. Reminds me of 9/11 where they found a hijacker's passport on the ground.

IIRC Also in the Charlie Hedo massacre they found an ID document in the car.

So who knows.

There are lot of weird things happening in this bizarro era, where we are rarely told the full story.