The groups being charged are Against SOS Mediterranee, Sea-Watch, Doctors without Borders Germany, Save The Children Germany, Jugend Rettet (all Berlin), Mission Lifeline (Dresden) and Sea-Eye (Regensburg). The controversial NGOs have come under scrutiny lately for their efforts picking up illegal immigrants off the coast of Libya under the pretense they are “being rescued from drowning” and bringing them to Europe.

The Italian government recently announced that they are closing their ports to these “humanitarian” ships in an effort to stop the illegal migration. Malta has since impounded multiple Sea-Watch vessels that are sponsored by the Lutheran Church in Germany using taxpayer funds. The captain of a ship run by Dresden-based Mission Lifeline, Claus-Peter Reisch, has also been arrested in Malta and charged with sailing under false flag. He has since been released on bail, but must remain on Malta until trial.

The charges being filed by AfD are based on a German law against human trafficking (Aufenthaltsgesetz §96) which deems it a crime to “aid or assist in illegal immigration repeatedly or on behalf of several foreigners, or for profit”. They are supported by all 92 members of parliament of the AfD, and was conceived by Petr Bystron, a former Czech refugee who is now AfD spokesman on the Foreign Committee of the German Bundestag.

Bystron is the Speaker of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) on the Foreign Policy Committee of the German Bundestag. He went to Germany in 1988 as a political refugee and joined the AfD in 2013. He was chair of the AfD for the State of Bavaria 2015-2018. He is currently one of the top ten most popular German politicians on social media.

According to the charges, the listed NGOs use their trafficking activities to solicit millions of euros’ worth of donations. Doctors Without Borders ‘’ is one of seven not for profit groups being sued for Human Trafficking in Germany.

“These long overdue steps send a clear signal to all the illegal people-smugglers active in the Mediterranean, and to the world,” Petr Bystron, a former Czech refugee who is now AfD spokesman on the Foreign Committee of the German Bundestag, told TGP. 

“These NGOs are human traffickers and radical leftist No Borders activists, not humanitarian life-savers. They need to be punished, not supported.”

The allegations come as European leaders are rethinking their open arms-open borders policies regarding migrants from the war-torn regions of the Middle East and North Africa, regions which are also rife with terrorist elements and militants.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, The New York Times reported, reversed her open borders migrant policy after coming under extreme pressure from rival political factions and even some within her own governing coalition. “We share a common goal in migration policy,” the party said in a statement. “We want to order, control and limit migration to Germany.”

As Megan G. Oprea, editor for the weekly intelligence newsletter Inbound noted: 

The wave of populism that hit Europe in the wake of crisis prompted arguments that populist discontent was simply a racist and bigoted response to “foreigners.” There’s no doubt that that’s part of the picture. But what has been lost on many is that a lot of Europeans were rejecting policies that were being mandated from the EU headquarters in Brussels, without democratic assent. This has been a major driving force in national elections across Europe in recent years, as well as in the infamous Brexit vote to leave the EU.

It also seems likely that groups like Doctors Without Borders Germany have been contributing to the unrest by allegedly trafficking humans into Europe.

Sources:

https://prepareforchange.net/2018/07/23/report-germany-files-charges-against-seven-not-for-profit-groups-for-human-trafficking-including-doctors-without-border/

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-07-05-doctors-without-border-charged-with-human-trafficking-carried-out-under-the-guise-of-humanitarian-work.html