Refugees outside a Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) facility in Braunschweig. The bizarre case of a German soldier who registered as a Syrian refugee has exposed failings in Germany's handling of a mass influx of over a million asylum-seekers since 2015. Officials say Albrecht - who harboured far-right, anti-immigrant views - was plotting an attack that he planned to blame on refugees. It adds fuel to criticism of the asylum bureaucracy raised by activists and legal experts over recent months. Conflicting decisionsTake the case of Mohamed Homad, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, who last October received two conflicting decisions on his asylum application.

Source: The Local May 05, 2017 07:07 UTC