Duitse ‘veteraan’ Manfred Roeder, 78, werd op de luchthaven van Heathrow na een Lufthansa-vlucht opgewacht. De autoriteiten beschouwen hem als ‘gevaarlijk’.
Roeder kreeg aldus in Groot-Brittannië minder rechten dan de vele illegale immigranten.

Lees het artikel (in het Engels) :

QUESTIONED UNDER ‘TERRORISM’ ACT

German dissident ordered deported from Britain

NSNS Tuesday, 18 September 2007

LONDON — Veteran German dissident Manfred Roeder has been
ordered deported from Britain on orders from the Home Secretary
“for the public good.”

Roeder arrived Sunday at Heathrow Airport on a Lufthansa flight
from Frankfurt. He had planned to pay a social call on friends in
London.

Roeder, who is 78 years old and has suffered several strokes,
was detained on arrival by two plain clothes officers who refused
to give their names. Photographed seven times and fingerprinted
twice, his passport and luggage were confiscated and copies of
his personal diary, address book and other documents were taken.

For more than three hours the German freedom fighter was
questioned under the so-called Terrorism Act, and he was not
allowed to contact either his German office or the British colleague
waiting for him in the arrivals area at Heathrow.

Eventually police contacted the British colleague and questioned
him about Roeder’s travel plans and political connections in the UK.

Authorities refuse to cooperate

At no time was there any suggestion that the German dissident
or his British colleagues had committed — or were preparing to
commit — any crime in the UK, let alone a terrorist act.

On the form giving “Reasons for Detention”, which states “detention
is only used when there is no reasonable alternative available,”
none of the boxes giving reasons for detention were checked.
It was claimed only that “your release is not considered conducive
to the public good.”

A British lawyer was put on the case in an effort to ascertain
Roeder’s whereabouts. Despite repeated calls to Heathrow and
the local Paddington Green police station, authorities refused
to cooperate.

The Terrorism Act documents served on the German dissident
do not carry the names or signatures of the arresting and
interrogating officers, who are identified only as 176519 and
180813.

Eventually after 6 p.m. — almost five hours after arriving at the
airport — Roeder was told that despite being an EU national he was
excluded from the UK on the orders of the Home Secretary.

Fewer rights than illegal immigrants

The official notice stated that “the Secretary of State has given
his personal direction that you should be refused admission to the
United Kingdom on the grounds that your presence here would not
be conducive to the public good on the grounds of public policy.”

In an Alice-in-Wonderland gesture, Roeder was told that “Regulation
26″ gave him the right of appeal, but that “Regulation 27″ dictated
that he could only lodge this appeal after he had been deported.

By contrast, an illegal immigrant or bogus asylum seeker from any
corner of the globe — who would be allowed to remain in the country
for months or years while appealing — would have far greater legal
rights than a fellow EU national.

As a final snub to the German dissident, he was not allowed to inform
his colleagues in Britain or Germany as to which flight he was being
deported on, thus preventing him from being picked up in Frankfurt.

To prevent his absconding from the plane (sic), the passport of the
70-year-old was ordered retained by the airline staff until his arrival
in Germany.

A detailed appeal is currently being prepared against this arbitrary
action by UK authorities.