German authorities made large welfare payments to a Muslim family while it was fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, German media reports say. Local newspapers did not reveal the actual amount involved in the fraud, but the ‘Jihadi family’ receiving family allowances, unemployment benefits, and child care payments could have pocketed tens of thousands of Euros in a span of one year while serving in the ranks for the terrorist organisation.
German authorities downplayed the latest revelations as a mere oversight caused by the ‘faulty communication’ between the Police, City and Federal Agencies. The State of Lower Saxony, where the city of Wolfsburg is located, is notorious for migrant welfare frauds. Earlier this year, the state refugee agency in Lower Saxony fired an employee for exposing over 300 cases of welfare fraud committed by migrants.
Regardless of what the authorities say, Islamist terrorists milking the welfare system seems to be all the rage in Merkel’s Germany. The Berlin Christmas market attacker, Anis Amri, was using several of his 14 different identities to collect welfare payments. Official records now show that German Social Services were aware of Amri’s elaborate fraud, but took no action against the illegal migrant-cum-terrorist.
Familie kämpft für den IS – und erhält weiter Sozialleistungen – WELT
Wolfsburg Familie kämpft für den IS – und erhält weiter Sozialleistungen Eine Familie aus Wolfsburg reiste im Herbst 2014 in die Kampfgebiete in Syrien und im Irak, um dort für den IS zu kämpfen. Trotzdem erhielt sie ein Jahr lang weiter Kinder-, Arbeitslosen- und Betreuungsgeld.
Translation:
A family with small children that had left Wolfsburg to join the Islamic State, continued to receive welfare benefits for about a year. The payments going to the married couple, which is under investigation for conspiring to commit a serious subversive act, have meanwhile been stopped — State Police said on Monday.
The father of the absconding man used his EC-card to collected family allowances, unemployment benefits and child care allowances for nearly a year, the [newspaper] Braunschweiger Zeitung reported. (…) During a raid in February 2016, €19,200 in cash were recovered from the man’s house.
The reason why the payments could not be stopped in time was as due to faulty communication: the city of Wolfsburg had been informed “in connection with the welfare payments,” clarified the [police] spokesman Frank Federau, however the city didn’t pass on the information to Federal Employment Agency (BfA) that was responsible for the payments.
After ISIS recruiters were active in the city for a long time, there was a big surge of Islamist radicalised youth from Wolfsburg to the war zone in Syria and Iraq. So far, 82 extremists have left the state of Lower Saxony for the war zone, of which 33 have returned back.