Germany’s Seehofer warns refugees who take Syria vacations Refugees who return to Syria for holidays might lose their refugee status in Germany, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told the Bild newspaper. Some newcomers simultaneously claim to be fleeing persecution there.

August 18, 2019   

(Deutsche Welle) German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced a tough response to Syrian refugees who leave Germany for holidays in their home country.

“If somebody, a Syrian refugee, regularly takes holidays in Syria, he cannot honestly claim to be persecuted in Syria,” Seehofer told Bild am Sonntag weekly.

“We would have to strip him of his refugee status,” he added.

As soon as German officials learn of such trips, they will launch a probe into the migrants’ refugee status, Seehofer added.

The Bavarian conservative did not say how many people would be affected by this policy.

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