Instagram users argue about detention of Chechen natives in Germany

Natives of Chechnya could not prepare a terror act in the country which granted asylum to them, and the German law enforcement authorities did not provide any objective reasons for their detention, note commentators on Instagram. Germany is a rule-of-law state, and fabrication of criminal cases by the law enforcement authorities is excluded there, other social network users argue.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that German law enforcers conducted a series of searches within the case on plotting of a terror act. According to the preliminary information, three migrants from Chechnya aged 23-28 years were detained. The German Prosecutor's Office reports that the detainees adhere to Islamic beliefs and that law enforcers found in their mobile phones the photo materials proving that the suspects were choosing a place for a terror act.

Many Instagram users ruled out the possibility of refugees from Chechnya plotting a terror act. "It's just ridiculous. How can they live in Germany and commit terror acts there?" wrote user liberta_1111_ on the "Caucasian Knot" page in the Instagram.

According to users of the social network, the reasons for the detention of the Chechen natives, voiced by the German law enforcement authorities, are not serious. "Since what time are sharp-cutting devices, money, and carriers of information considered weapons? Then you should imprison every German citizen," wrote user dinberg.s.

In turn, a number of commentators excluded the possibility that the rights of the Chechen migrants could be violated in Germany. "Germany is a rule-of-law state, and everything will be in order there," wrote user kazbek.72. "In any case, nothing will be planted to them, unlike in Russia," user freemen.xx believes.

The information about the possible preparation of a terror act by Chechen Islamists provoked calls from residents of Germany to close the border. "It would be even better to stop people at the border and not allow them to get Hartz4 (social welfare benefits for long-term unemployed persons, ‑ note of the 'Caucasian Knot') to prevent them from plotting terror acts," user Henning Martin wrote on the Berlin Prosecutor's Office page in Twitter as translated from German by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 15, 2020 at 12:05 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.