Deportation: Germany pushes Afghans again

Despite the poor security situation, a deportation flight has landed in Afghanistan. Among the 14 men are mainly offenders, it is said by the authorities.

Deportation: Germany pushes Afghans again

Despite violence in Afghanistan, Germany has pushed anor group of men re. With a plane coming from Leipzig-Halle, 14 rejected asylum seekers arrived in Kabul in morning, confirmed a spokeswoman for Federal ministry. With a total of seven collective deportations since December 2016, Germany has thus let 128 men fly back to Afghanistan.

The countries of Saxony, Bavaria, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hamburg, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate would have participated in repatriation measure, it was said in an e-mail from ministry. "The above-mentioned persons are all criminal offenders as well as those who stubbornly refuse to participate in identification of identity." Eleven of passengers were criminal offenders, three were so-called co-operation deniers.

After a massive attack on German embassy in Kabul in May with around 150 deaths, federal government and Länder had restricted deportation to Afghanistan to three groups: offenders, more threatening – people to whom Police trust a act – and those who " Stubbornly refuse to cooperate in identification of identity.

Especially offenders

The offenders among deportees, among ors, had committed manslaughter, sexual abuse of children, ft, dangerous bodily injury, forgery and fraud, writes Interior Ministry spokesperson.

Among young men who rushed out of terminal towards parking lot was Timor, 21, from province of Parwan near Kabul, who only wanted to indicate his first name. He lived in Munich for two years and went to school re, he said. His application for asylum had been rejected twice. The authorities would have told him that he did not have enough evidence that his life in Afghanistan was in danger. He does not complain about Germany – "It is Afghan government that has fooled us," he said with reference to agreement to take back rejected asylum-seekers who have taken Afghanistan with Germany.

Protests at airport

Kadir Alisai, about 24 and from West Afghan province of Herat, said he had lived in Chemnitz for seven years. He didn't work, but he didn't sit in jail, eir. He was told that he had to go because he lied about danger to himself in Afghanistan.

Hussain Ahmadi, 22, reported that he had been in Germany for eight years. The police arrested him when he wanted to extend an I.D. to an authority. He had grown up as an Afghan refugee in Iran and had never been to Afghanistan before.

Many ors of deported did not want to talk about mselves. A man confirmed that he had been deported from prison. Anor one had a bloody bottom lip.

In Leipzig re had been protests before flight. As early as Tuesday morning, around 150 people had gared at airport and demanded an end to deportations to Afghanistan. Even prisoners of law should not be exposed to danger, said Saxon leftist politician Juliane Nagel.

Date Of Update: 26 October 2017, 12:03
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