According to the newspaper Russkaya Germaniya, this decision was made by the Administrative Court of Göttingen, justifying its verdict by the 'insufficient willingness of these two families to integrate into German society.' As established during the proceedings, both families arrived in Germany in 1998. They did not apply for asylum, and their requests for temporary residence permits had already been rejected twice.
The parents, despite having work permits since 2006, never sought to earn enough money to support their families, exploiting the existing social welfare system, and their 13 children systematically skipped school. The adults ignored all admonitions from the school administration, and even numerous fines imposed by court order for the children's unexcused absences did not affect them.
Moreover, the courts twice sentenced the heads of both families to imprisonment for causing bodily harm. The parents, despite 17 years of residence in Germany, have virtually no command of the German language and lack even basic knowledge of the legal and social order. They also have neither education nor any professional qualifications.
In the court's opinion, the fact that a 15-year-old girl in one of the families actively participated in a school theater project is completely insufficient to extend the families' right to temporary residence in Germany.
As the court particularly noted, the current situation in the Republic of Kosovo, recognized by the German authorities as a safe country, does not fundamentally hinder deportation, although Roma are subject to discrimination there. However, there is no real danger to their life and health there. In light of the above, the court ordered the total deportation of both families to their homeland.
Local human rights activists were very concerned about the fate of the unfortunate Roma. During the trial, they held a demonstration in front of the Administrative Court building in support of them, gathering about 150 people. As Sigmar Walbrecht, press secretary of the Lower Saxony Council for Refugees, said in an interview with the newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, 'Formally, the deportation decision does not contradict the European Convention on Human Rights. But it should have been taken into account that these families will have to leave the country after 17 years of residence in Germany, and their children were born here. This is too much.'
'It is an incredible situation when children have to share the fate of their parents,' supported Walbrecht Meinhart Ramaswamy, a representative of the Pirate Party on the Council for Refugees.
The human rights activists were answered in absentia by the press secretary of the state Ministry of the Interior, Matthias Eichler: 'Lower Saxony will continue to deport persons who do not meet the conditions for asylum more consistently and decisively than before,' the Göttinger Tageblatt newspaper quotes him. 'In the first 11 months of 2015, we deported 940 people, which is 200 more than in the entire year 2014. Also across the country, the number of deportations has increased significantly in recent years. According to the Interior Ministry, there were about 7,900 deportations in 2011, about 10,200 in 2013, and by the end of October 2015, 15,848 people had been deported.'
It is reported that the defense of the deported Roma intends to appeal the decision of the Administrative Court of Göttingen at the Higher Administrative Court of Lower Saxony in Lüneburg.