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Fundamentally, article 16 of the German constitution explicitly prohibits extraditions of German citizens. Of course, there are precedents in certain cases of severe crimes but the legal barriers are high.



But they're not, at least, not yet afaics and as I wrote above if the only reason you obtain that citizenship is to avoid prosecution in your home country you might just lose it again.




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