Jens Spahn, Germany’s designated health minister in the incoming government, has defended a food bank’s decision to bar foreigners from registering.
In an interview on Saturday with Germany’s Funkemedia group, Spahn said young men who queued up outside the small food bank in the city of Essen looked “so bold and robust that the elderly and single parents no longer had any chance of receiving any food.”
It was therefore right for the food bank to take action, the lawmaker for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) added.
Last month, the Tafel food bank in Essen entered Germany’s heated debates on xenophobia, migration and poverty after it decided to stop issuing membership cards to foreigners.