Otto Schily
Otto Schily
Otto Georg Schilywas Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth20 July 1932
CountryGermany
bringing efforts file laws
After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.
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Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
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Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
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Information and details point to a crime. The amount and nature of the material used in the tanker confirm that it was an (terrorist) attack.
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The needle is oscillating more toward a grand coalition under the leadership of Schroeder,
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if the unions go on strike, our offer -- which already is double what we originally offered -- will be off the table.
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If you look at the results of the grand coalition, it accomplished a lot.
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I suggest setting up a corps of specially trained European riot police that can work at an international level to de-escalate problems and, where needed, effectively quell violence.
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It's defamatory to the foreigners who live here. It is a panic reaction to their loss of power,
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It took far too long for this book to be written. But it also took a long time for Germany as a nation to be able to look clearly at what happened in the Nazi era.
bear decision responsibility serious
It's a very serious decision, ... Everyone must bear responsibility for the decision they take.
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It's repulsive to claim that terror and extremism will be imported to Germany if we modernize our citizenship laws,
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.