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Stephan Mayer, parliamentary state secretary in Germany’s Interior Ministry, which is headed by Bavaria’s Horst Seehofer, said Monday he expected an urgent law change to deny passports to what he termed jihadis with double citizenship.
In remarks to the Funke media chain following Sunday’s arrests of six suspected Islamists in Berlin, Mayer also hinted that Georgia and Armenia could be added to Germany’s list of countries where would-be asylum seekers are presumed safe.
Mayer, like Seehofer, belongs to Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) which forms part of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc within her new coalition government with center-left Social Democrats (SPD).
Numbers vague
The Bonn-based Center for Political Education (bpb) says census figures on Germans who hold second or more passports are inexact, ranging from 1.9 up to 4.3 million.