“Cheap sleight of hand”: Palmer turns into clear in the case of violence by migrants | EUROtoday

On Tuesday night, Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer and Juso boss Philipp Türmer heatedly mentioned the connection between migration and crime in Sandra Maischberger’s ARD speak. “We have a significant increase in violent crime. Iraqis, Syrians and Afghans are six times overrepresented than their share of the population warrants,” mentioned Palmer, who’s impartial of the celebration.

Then the younger politician desires to counter this assertion: “This connection that you are making: more migration equals more crime, that is…” Then Palmer interrupts him and likewise launches a verbal counterattack: “A cheap sleight of hand.” The Juso then notes that Palmer ought to “talk to the Ifo Institute in Munich,” “they have investigated this.”

Palmer: “The fact that you are equating everything is a cheap sleight of hand”

But Palmer counters once more. “I read the police crime statistics. They talk about migration as a whole. That’s not what it’s about. It’s about the refugee movements of the last ten years. And among this group of new arrivals we have a massive increase in violent crime. Six times more than the proportion of the population justifies. This is not about the worker on the assembly line at Daimler or the nurse at your hospital in Offenbach. We have excellently integrated migrants,” mentioned Tübingen’s mayor. Palmer continued: “The fact that you are now equating all of this is a cheap sleight of hand to deny the real problem. And some people deny climate change. Some people deny demographic change and others deny the reality of violence because they don’t want to admit it.”

Türmer famous that poverty crime is usually a results of social issues and “a result of a lack of prospects”. Palmer counters once more: “Disputing the problem doesn’t get us anywhere.” Rather, it encourages voters to vote for the AfD.