PUNCH Diaspora: German nun fined €500 for offering as

PUNCH Diaspora: German nun fined €500 for offering asylum to two Nigerians


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Published 9 June 2021
A German nun, Juliana Seelmann, has been charged the sum of €500 (about N250,000) for granting asylum to Nigerian women who were meant to be deported from Germany.
The two Nigerian women housed and assisted by Seelmann had fled from forced prostitution in Italy, according to Info Migrant.
Seelmann, at the Franciscan abbey of Oberzell in Würzburg, had granted church asylum to one of the Nigerians in 2019 and the other in 2020.
According to the European Union’s Dublin Regulation, the Nigerian women ought to have been deported back to Italy, their first country of entrance into Europe.

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