Radical Islamist Asylum Seeker Costing Taxpayers €4,000 Per Day
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A Syrian asylum seeker who is recognised as a terrorist threat due to his Islamic State sympathies costs German taxpayers 4,000 euros a day to monitor but has never been placed on trial.
In all, Ayman N. has cost the German taxpayer around five million euros in the three years he has been under strict observation by German security services, and even has four plainclothes police officers escort him when he goes to the shop to buy food.
Police have spent around 95,000 hours of work on observing and escorting the Syrian teen at a rate of 52 euros per hour for each police officer, according to information provided to German tabloid Bild by the Saxony-Anhalt Interior Ministry.
The Syrian is said to have come to Germany in 2015 during the height of the migrant crisis and became radicalised in 2017 when he began contacting members of the Islamic State terror group over the Internet.
“He made it clear that he wanted to carry out an attack against the lives of many people living in Germany,” a justice official told the paper. Breitbart,
