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Many refugees in the city of Bremen are worried that they could face deportation after a major scandal at the city's immigration authority, where officials allegedly took bribes in return for offering asylum.
"They are afraid that their residence status will be changed or that they could be threatened with deportation," Marc Millies from the Bremen Refugee Council said on Friday.
The Federal Office for Immigration and Refugees (BAMF) wants to reassess 18,000 decisions made by their Bremen office, after prosecutors started an investigation into claims that employees there took bribes in return for granting asylum.
Prosecutors suspect that more than 1,200 people were granted asylum between 2013 and 2016 who did not have actual grounds for being offered protection.