Outrage at migrants in Germany taking taxpayer-funded holidays back to war-torn nations
Officials are now investigating how common it is for asylum seekers to return to their war-torn homes for a holiday
ASYLUM seekers who escaped their war-torn countries including Syria and Afghanistan, are returning to their homes for holidays.
A number of migrants have been revealed to have travelled to their home countries for short stays, despite having arrived in Germany claiming that they were fleeing persecution.
While the number of cases are unknown, : "There are such cases."
Asylum seekers who claim social benefits are permitted to leave the country for 21 days a year but are not required to report where they are travelling.
While officials intend to investigate the cases, it is understood there is no legal ground to demand the information around where an asylum seeker is heading.
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But the German news outlet reported that BAMG was writing to employment agencies to be able to gather information around the travel of asylum seekers.
In a BMAF statement quoted by the German news outlet said: "In the case, however, when the journey is being conducted for leisure purposes, this may be an indication that the refugee fears no persecution."
In these cases, a migrant would be stripped of their asylum seeker status.
Chairman of the Union Group in the Committee on Internal Affairs of the Bundestag, Armin Schuster (CDU), said: "If this is true, it leaves one almost speechless."
He said there needed to be consequences for those who returned to the place they claimed they had experienced persecution.
Germany has accepted more than 1.3 million asylum seekers but has sought to reconsider its policy around migration.
Germany chancellor Angela Merkel has faced intense criticism in the past over her open door policy on migration.
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