Just a small correction: the involved German states did not “make it a point to hide” the individual crimes from being published. Instead this happens because we in Germany place a comparably very high value on privacy. And yes, even criminal scum gets theirs protected by neither naming them nor their crimes. Even convicted criminals’ names are never published on principle unless they have become public figures through other means anyway.
And the crimes were not detailed because knowing the specific combinations of crimes and sentences would make it too easy to identify them, given there’s only 28 of them.
The idea of protecting privacy so much is that by having completed their sentences, they should have the same opportunity as anyone else in life and not be “tarnished” forever.
I think being dragged to the first plane flying to Afghanistan since years is much more of a “tarnishing” and much easier identifiable. And as we see, the speculations are running wild, as to what the people might have been doing. You can see it in your own comment referring to them as “criminal scum”. So it is working as intended. By hiding the crimes, the people hearing/reading about it, have their imaginations create an image of some particularly “scummy” people, who must have committed the most heinous crimes, without knowing if that is actually the case. That is also why they gave one example of one case to create the strong framing.
It was announced that they all committed “schwere Verbrechen”. That means it’s all felonies and capital crimes. I do characterize people who commit capital crimes as scum, because those are by definition never small misconducts or accidents. Felony convictions for capital crimes need proof of malicious intent. So there really is incredibly little room left to feel bad for the criminals.
Just a small correction: the involved German states did not “make it a point to hide” the individual crimes from being published. Instead this happens because we in Germany place a comparably very high value on privacy. And yes, even criminal scum gets theirs protected by neither naming them nor their crimes. Even convicted criminals’ names are never published on principle unless they have become public figures through other means anyway.
And the crimes were not detailed because knowing the specific combinations of crimes and sentences would make it too easy to identify them, given there’s only 28 of them.
The idea of protecting privacy so much is that by having completed their sentences, they should have the same opportunity as anyone else in life and not be “tarnished” forever.
I think being dragged to the first plane flying to Afghanistan since years is much more of a “tarnishing” and much easier identifiable. And as we see, the speculations are running wild, as to what the people might have been doing. You can see it in your own comment referring to them as “criminal scum”. So it is working as intended. By hiding the crimes, the people hearing/reading about it, have their imaginations create an image of some particularly “scummy” people, who must have committed the most heinous crimes, without knowing if that is actually the case. That is also why they gave one example of one case to create the strong framing.
It was announced that they all committed “schwere Verbrechen”. That means it’s all felonies and capital crimes. I do characterize people who commit capital crimes as scum, because those are by definition never small misconducts or accidents. Felony convictions for capital crimes need proof of malicious intent. So there really is incredibly little room left to feel bad for the criminals.