Just one week after his deportation, Moroccan serial offender Tarik J. announces his return to Germany and threatens to attack a police station.
Within just three months, the 42-year-old Moroccan has committed 25 criminal offences. For ten years, the migrant with a police record has been living in the small Thuringian town of Apolda at the taxpayer’s expense, making headlines across Germany as neither the town nor the district were able to get rid of him due to an ill migration policy. On September 5, the Free State of Thuringia finally deported him to Morocco. But J. is apparently not intending to stay in Morocco.
J. published a video on his TikTok channel showing a police operation in front of an asylum centre in Apolda at the end of July 2023. In the video, he threatens in flawed German: ‘I’m coming back. I’ll f… any of you … I won’t blow up an ATM, but I’ll only blow up a police station.’
According to the Bild newspaper, proceedings against the Moroccan were underway at Weimar district court in August – including for attempted grievous bodily harm. The verdict was due to be handed down on September 6, but the proceedings were temporarily suspended due to the deportation. On September 5, J. boarded a Royal Air Maroc flight from Frankfurt/Main to Casablanca, accompanied by German and Moroccan security personnel. During his deportation, J. claimed that he would stay in Morocco.
Tarik J. has already served several prison sentences for insults, receiving stolen goods, resisting law enforcement officers and assault. Despite being banned from approaching his former partner – a German woman – he allegedly wants to return to Germany to see his five-year-old daughter Mina. The imminent risk of being arrested again does not seem to deter the felon. Why should it?