Prof Ghassan Abu-Sitta says Schengen-wide ban imposed by Germany appears to be attempt to silence witness testimony

Archived version: https://archive.ph/xMYnQ

  • @[email protected]
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    1314 days ago

    I feel obliged to point out that, Brexit didn’t happen, then his rights as an EU citizen would have been violated. As far as I know, you can’t use the Schengen system against EU citizens.

    But because he was British and Brexit happened, Germany could do this.

    But I do wonder… if the French government would formally invite him, they should be able to overrule the German decision. It seems that they decided not to do that?

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
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      914 days ago

      He was invited by the Green Party, not by the senate as a whole. It’s likely the rest of them didn’t care.

    • Kairos
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      514 days ago

      You literally cannot deny entry to citizens its internationally illegal