At the end of April 2023, the social networks and some media went around information about the scandalous decision of German social services. We checked whether such a description of the situation is true.

A 4-minute video spread on the Internet, in which people in the form of Germany’s police take the child out of the apartment, despite his screams and the resistance of women in hijabs. According to the description, in the city of Bremerhafen, located in the north-west of the country, social services took from the Muslim family a boy on the basis of a complaint received from his school. The reason for everything was allegedly that the child’s family was taught to talk about incompatibility of homosexuality and transgender with Islamic traditions. The boy was sent to the social guardianship authorities before the court decision on the possible deprivation of parental rights.

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By state For 2019, about 5.5 million Muslims (6.6% of the country's population) lived in Germany, a quarter of which at least once a week visited the mosque. Moreover, officially every resident of Germany Free In the implementation of its sexual and gender identity, and the law protects the representatives of the LGBT+community. However, the Islamic tradition is against same -sex relationships, and this incompatibility is inevitable It affects On the life of at least part of the Muslims of Germany.

The video itself brings little clarity to the explanation of the causes of what happened. On it you can hear a woman in Arabic tells the police that the child suffers “from electric shocks in my head”, which force him to scream and lead to epileptic seizures. She also says that the actions of the police can harm the boy. In turn, one of the law enforcement officers declares family members that, together with colleagues, acts on the basis of court decisions and the management of youth and that the child needs to be taken away, even by force. LGBT and related questions in the video are not mentioned in any way.

One of the first videos Published On the night of April 28, the Arabic-speaking Twitter account @shuoonislamiya, providing it with a comment: “They received from Germany: the forced abduction of children from the Muslim family! The abduction was committed by the Department for Youth Affairs, accompanied by the police. ” It should be noted that in 2022 the SHUUN Islamiya resource ("Islamic affairs") was already Noticed In the spread of misinformation about the abductions of Muslim children by Sweden social services. The founder of this account Suspect In relations with the group "Muslim Brothers", recognized as terrorist in Russia and some other countries.

So, in tweet @shuoonislamiya, as we see, nothing was said about LGBT. However, already on the morning of April 28 it Retwitter scandalous The famous British political observer of Pakistani origin of Bushra Sheikh. She added her own comment: “The guardianship authorities and the police forcibly take a little boy from his family. As they learned at school, the boy is taught that homosexuality and transgender are unacceptable in Islam. ”

The tweet of the Bushra Sheikh caused even the greater interest of readers (more than 10,000 reposts) than the initial publication @shuoonislamiya. And two hours later, he appeared under the tweet comment The official Bremerhafen police account: “The police are known about the video. This is a case from Bremerhafen. The video was sent for an internal check. " And on the day of April 29, on the site and on social networks of the city police, more detailed message: “In social networks, it circulates a video of the joint operation of the management of youth and the Bremerhafen police, accompanied by false allegations about its causes. The video shows a small passage of the capture of two children under the guardianship by court decision. The police supported in this operation the management of youth. Taking children under guardianship is always an extreme measure and occurs only if there are serious reasons. We also ask to treat with understanding that in order to protect the family and children, we cannot give any additional explanations about the reasons for the adoption of this decision. We understand that the indicated video is emotionally disturbing. Please do not disseminate false facts and statements. ”

German edition of Buten Un Binnen I tried To find out the reasons for such a court decision, but neither the police nor the city administration of Bremerhafen reported new details. The law enforcement department once again refuted the version associated with LGBT. At the same time, the Jordanian edition of Roya News with reference to the social network distributed Unconfirmed information that the visit of law enforcement was held after a complaint of neighbors about the repeated cries of one of the children. Such a version explains why a woman in the video tells law enforcement officers about the unusual behavior of the child. Note that one of the main functions of the German administration of youth matters is really, protection of children and adolescents undergoing violence. According to Social Code, taking the child under custody of social services, while his parents are in Germany, perhaps only in the event of a request from the child or an urgent threat to his well -being. In a conversation with our colleagues from DPA German child rights expert Yorg Maywald He stated that the political or religious position of parents cannot qualify as an emergency threat, and therefore, taking the custody of a legal point of view.

Thus, the theory circulating in social networks about the connection between the student’s homophobia is denied by official services and is poorly compatible with the current legislation of Germany. It already arose in social networks - and not immediately, but after the reposts of the first publications. All this allows you to consider it unlikely.

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