Refugees sue German government for taking too long to process asylum claims

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Indignant refugees in Germany are suing Angela Merkel's government, claiming it is taking too long to process their asylum applications.

More than 200 migrants in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have launched a lawsuit against the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees because they have been waiting over a year for a decision on whether they can stay in Germany.

The cases being heard in several courts across the state – including Cologne which witnessed a terrifying frenzy of sexual attacks against women by migrants on New Year's Eve – allege 'inactivity' on the part of officials.

News of the lawsuits came on the same day that German president Joachim Gauck told global financial and political players gathered at Davos for their annual conference that it is 'morally and politically necessary' to limit Europe's refugee influx.

Germany's refugee authortiy (BAMF) is struggling to cope with the backlog of refugee applications following the arrival of more than million people last year. In all there are 360,000 unprocessed applications in the bureaucratic logjam.

Even the justice minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, Thomas Kutschaty, said he understood the anger of migrants, adding; 'Uncertainty about when an asylum application will finally be decided drives many people to despair.

'It can't be the case that asylum seekers are forced to take legal action against the state after crossing the border, so that it finally makes a decision about their application.'

Court sources told Germany's Rheinische Post newspaper that BAMF is often spurred to process claims more quickly if it is threatened with legal action.