Benjamin Bathke
Multimedia Journalist at Deutsche Welle (DW)
Entrepreneurial Journalist at Freelance
*Entrepreneurial journalist*, Deutsche Welle (DW) reporter (@InfoMigrants, @DW_GMF...), ex-Munk Journalism fellow & @WUSTL storyteller, @SemesterAtSea alum
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1 week ago |
infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) will present the first draft bills to the cabinet of Germany's new center-right government on Wednesday (May 28) aimed at limiting migration and reforming naturalization. Under the minister's plans, relatives of people with subsidiary protection who live abroad are only allowed to join them in Germany after two years. The proposal is reportedly in line with the coalition deal of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats.
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2 months ago |
infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke
Ahmed Odowaa, an asylum seeker from Somalia who helped stop a knife attacker in the German city of Aschaffenburg on January 22, will no longer face deportation to Italy. That's according to Joachim Herrmann, interior minister of the German state of Bavaria, where Aschaffenburg is located. His announcement on Monday evening (April 7) contradicts previous media reports, which had stated that the 30-year-old Somali would have to leave Germany in the summer.
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2 months ago |
infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke
After spending 3.5 years behind bars for allegedly starting the 2020 fire that destroyed the severely overcrowded Moria migrant camp on the Greek Aegean Island of Lesbos, three Afghan asylum seekers were found not guilty last Friday (April 4) by a youth court in Lesbos' capital Mytilene.
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2 months ago |
infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke
Tunisian police, carrying batons, moved through an area with olive trees. Migrants ran away as their tents were set on fire. Some migrants watched as smoke rose from their burning shelters. "I don't know what to do," Bakayo Abdelkadeur, a 26-year-old from Mali, told news agency AFP while holding blankets. Last Friday (April 4), authorities began dismantling camps housing some 7,000 undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, news agency AFP reported citing police sources.
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2 months ago |
infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke
Poland will launch an information campaign abroad to deter migrants from trying to cross into the European Union through its border with Belarus, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday (April 4). "We will soon launch an information campaign in seven countries where the largest number of migrants trying to illegally cross the Polish border come from," Tusk said in Polish in a video published on social media on Friday.
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