Germany Calls For Two-Year Ban On Europeans Returning To The Eu From Syria.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326156/Germany-year-entry-ban-EU-suspected-Islamists-returning-Syria-homegrown-terrorists.html

A controversial suggestion? maybe, difficult to implement? perhaps, but should it not be tried?

Germany are aware that up to 40 people have left Germany for Syria since the summer of 2012, I wonder if Britain is aware how many have also left for Syria?

/// A survey by King's College London found last month that up to 600 individuals from countries including the UK, Spain, Sweden and Germany had taken part in the Syrian conflict since the war erupted in 2011. The largest contingent was from the UK. ///

Now there's a surprise, I don't think.

[bazwillrun]

Why two years, keep them out permanently

[TTG]

No problem with getting into the UK or being deported. So to answer the question, easy to implement except in the UK.

[sandyRoe]

Isn't the UK government sending aid to the Syrian rebels? If some young idealist is prepared to go there and risk life and limb in pursuit of liberty why should we want to stop them returning home eventually?

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// why should we want to stop them returning home eventually? ///

Did you read the link?

It is not the matter of them going out there, it is the fear of what they could return as.

/// Germany has called for Europeans fighting the Assad regime in Syria to be temporarily barred from re-entering the EU - amid fears they could return as 'homegrown terrorists'. ///

[emmie]

don't know if that is feasible, but suggest that anyone going to fight for the rebels stays there.
sandy, how do you know those same freedom fighters won't turn on the west when they have done trying to topple Assad, not to mention the lessons they will have learned from their brothers in arms in Syria, how to make bombs perhaps, and kill, is that what you want more terrorists on our streets.