Changes afoot at Germany's migration agency over asylum scandal - minister


  • World
  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018

People walk in front of an office building of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in Berlin, Germany, October 15, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

BERLIN (Reuters) - Concern that more than 1,000 people were wrongly granted asylum by Germany's migration agency may lead to personnel changes at the agency, the interior minister signalled on Tuesday.

The minister, Horst Seehofer, told a newspaper an investigation was underway at the Bremen office of the agency, and he would make decisions about "organisational and, if necessary, personnel changes" next week.

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