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There are mechanisms in EU sanctions law that are supposed to ensure a minimum subsistence level, even when someone’s bank accounts are frozen. In theory, this means basic needs like rent, food, and essential expenses should remain covered through officially approved exemptions.
However, in practice every single payment usually requires explicit authorization from the competent authority, and that process can take a long time. Multiple agencies are involved, banks are extremely cautious, and the administrative workflow is slow. The resulting hardship isn’t an intentional attempt to starve anyone, but a structural problem in how these procedures are implemented.
So it’s worth keeping a cool head: the intention isn’t malicious, but the execution can still put people in very difficult situations before the exemptions finally come through.
Especially in Germany authorities are known to take a long time for virtually anything you need to apply for. This is a bureaucracy hell.
You mean like how weapons exports to Israel stopped because of all of those laws and restrictions? Oh that never happened.
Yes it fucking is.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Germany is a bureaucratic hell because the powers that be choose to keep it that way.
The EU, like the US, has designed a system where the authorities can inflict horrendous suffering on innocent people by exploiting their discretion and abusing the gap between arrest (or sanction) and court hearing to inflict untold misery.
Police in the West can arrest, sanction, confine, physically and mentally abuse, their political opponents on a whim. They can arrest anyone they want as a punishment for anything or nothing. And when the courts ultimately say "this arrest was not lawful, release this prisoner" it doesn't fucking matter because the prisoner has suffered so horribly that only the strongest of them will dare to do anything against the government again.
But the victim was released. Eventually. And that makes all the beatings and rapes and starvation okay, right?
Fucking fedditors again boil germany
The 'f' comes from 'Fuhrer'