He killed his mother eleven years ago, and now the Iraqi can be deported

A 28-year-old Iraqi who murdered his mother in 2015 can be deported. The Mettmann district rightly threatened the man with deportation to Iraq, the Düsseldorf Administrative Court ruled according to a statement on Tuesday. In doing so, it dismissed the Iraqi's lawsuit against his deportation.

Despite “various rehabilitation efforts,” the man still poses a threat to public safety and order, the statement said. These risks could not be imposed on the general public. The decision can be appealed to the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia.

According to the court, the 28-year-old was sentenced to a youth prison of nine and a half years after he murdered his mother in 2015 “to restore the supposed family honor.” According to the court, the man has not yet “acknowledged the crime and, above all, his contribution to the crime in all its details to himself and to the outside world and has not dealt with it.” He did not sufficiently complete a separation process from his conservative Yazidi family. The court sees a risk of repetition.

The murder of one's own mother due to an "unacceptably misunderstood concept of honor" is "in stark contradiction" to the value system of the Basic Law and shows "a profound failure of integration in every respect," emphasized the chamber. The expulsion is also justified in order to signal to other foreigners “that a stay in Germany requires full respect for human life and the human dignity of others.”

The court explained that the fact that the perpetrator had siblings and other family members in Germany did not stand in the way of deportation. “These must take a back seat to public safety interests.” His alleged Crohn's disease is also not a reason against deportation to Iraq. Because he could be treated there - with the support of his relatives in Germany if necessary.