“It is already statistically proven that this wave of migration has fuelled crime. To deny that would be irresponsible.”
Manuel Ostermann serves as the First Deputy Federal Chairman of the DPolG Federal Police Union in Germany. He is also the domestic policy spokesperson for the Junge Union, the governing CDU/CSU alliance’s youth organisation in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia, and an expert on internal security and policing. We spoke with him last week in the Hungarian city of Szeged, on the sidelines of a conference on the 10th Anniversary of the European Migration Crisis organised by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and the Migration Research Institute (MRI).
