Foreign Power: Libyan Attacks Supermarket with Machete and is Let Go

[Sven]

Freiberg. Move instead of pretrial detention; with these measures the authorities react in Saxon Freiberg to the criminal offences of two asylum-seekers.

First a 27-year-old man from Libya had been caught the last week in a local supermarket at the theft. On Friday he entered with an accomplice once more the supermarket. Armed with a machete and pepper spray he threatened an employee with her decapitation and attacked an other employee. The police could stop these so-called "refugees" only with a warning shot.

Because the Libyan is suspicious according to public prosecutor's office only "of the theft, the menace and, perhaps, the opposition against enforcement official", one arranged no pretrial detention. The actions cannot be arranged supposedly as a robbery or robber's broads theft, "there the culprits neither under threat of violence a theft have committed nor have used force", according to a speaker of the public prosecutor's office in misunderstanding of the fact that the menace with a machete can be absolutely evaluated as "a threat of violence". Now instead of pretrial detention the "refugee" is moved in another asylum-seeker's lodging.

In Freiberg this action released terror and fear. Mayor Sven Kürger (SPD) was startled that the criminal asylum-seeker did not come to pretrial detention: "I lack the words, and above all I have no understanding for our justice which kept the culprit who has already threatened yesterday employees and police not in custody, but again dismissed from the pretrial detention. Thus we will not protect our citizens and female citizens, and the work of the police blows up. "
While the management of the affected supermarket did not want to express itself, reported the branch manager of a neighbouring discount shop about similar problems with asylum-seekers. "We are spat and insulted." Also thefts would increase increasingly. Now a private security should take remedial action.