Belarusian said to have had tourist visa issued by Italy is investigated over alleged attempt to attack Leipzig airport
Germany is urging its European partners to introduce tighter limitations on Russian citizens entering the EU on tourist visas, after recent sabotage attacks which Berlin has blamed on Moscow.
German authorities are investigating a Belarusian national, who also holds a Russian passport, over the alleged attempt to attack Leipzig airport using drones and explosives.
The man is alleged to have entered the Schengen area on a tourist visa issued by the Italian embassy in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Security sources said he did not appear to have ever travelled through Italy.
Germany’s foreign ministry has complained that too many visas were being issued to Russians.
Because granting tourism visas is the default. What advantage would be gained by not giving them tourism visas?
Having fewer Russians traveling to your country. It’s not like Putin makes them get work visas when they’re trying to sabotage shit.
And?
Maybe he does, but in any case that’s not what I’m asking the parent commenter. My question is: Why would denying tourism visas to enemy civilians be, by default, a bad idea? Because that’s what they’re implying.
Who says they’re all civilians? It’s much easier for FSB or whomever to recruit Russians living in Russia as assets than foreigners, or Russians living abroad. Many of the Russians living abroad may support him but enjoy their lives too much to agree to endanger their comfy lives.
Innocent until proven guilty, you tell me how many are FSB agents and the evidence that makes you think so.
It’s wartime and they’re people who aren’t EU citizens, so they’re not entitled to passage. Why should they be admitted?
Many stories you can read here and there’s likely more that we don’t even know about. Yes, there are already people in Europe who are likely to be sympathetic to Russia and there’s not much to do about those people since forcibly deporting them to Russia without just cause would be inhumane, but why should we allow in more people that quite likely support Putin? He has pretty high approval rates after all.
You haven’t answered my question. Quite literally no part of what you said affects the overall argument* (sabotage operations are almost all done by locals and so are irrelevant unless you can prove Russian tourist involvement).
*Just as a reminder, the original question was “what advantage would be gained by not giving them tourism visas?”
Ah, yea never mind, I checked your history, you’re a Putin and genocide sympathizer. I thought you just have no common sense, but you’re obviously not asking these questions in good faith. Good bye.