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> In Germany, we put former GDR soldiers on trial and into jail for shooting people trying to flee into Western Germany. How is this different? Frontex does n

• krylon 6y ago
  No, they let them drown, they purposefully buy drones and aircraft instead of ships so they do not have to rescue them. It may not be quite the same, but it hardly measures up to the moral standards the EU likes to claim to stand for.
• guerrilla 6y ago
  > Frontex does not shoot people. That wasn't the claim. The argument was that they kill people and that we've punished border guards who kill people before, so why not now. Shooting was just an example of killing.
• lampe3 6y ago
  So for you it depends on how you kill people?
• arendtio 6y ago
  Well, not yet but since they are interested in buying firearms that future doesn't seem to be so far away.