Germany has once again deported Afghans to their home country on a charter flight.<\/p>\n
“This morning, 31 Afghan men subject to a final order to leave the country were deported to Kabul on a charter flight,” the Interior Ministry posted on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The aircraft took off from Leipzig\/Halle Airport in the early hours of Tuesday morning, dpa learnt.<\/p>\n
The Interior Ministry in the eastern state of Saxony had initially confirmed the deportation.<\/p>\n
‘Serious offenders’ sent home<\/p>\n
Those involved were “predominantly very serious and serious offenders who had committed homicides, rapes and acts of violence,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on the fringes of a party summer retreat in southern Germany.<\/p>\n
One person on board was not a convicted criminal. However, this person was also subject to a mandatory order to leave the country, Dobrindt added. They had attempted to seek refuge in another European country but had then returned to Germany.<\/p>\n
“In recent weeks, we have made it clear to the federal states that deportations of people required to leave the country to Afghanistan will continue to be possible in future, provided we are not dealing exclusively with the most serious offenders,” said Dobrindt.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses at Kabul airport reported seeing several families waiting for their relatives. As officials explained to those waiting at the airport, the deportees were to be processed and interrogated by Taliban officials upon their arrival. Afterwards, they could potentially be released following assurances from their families.<\/p>\n
Agreement with the Taliban<\/p>\n
The basis for the deportation is a direct agreement with the Islamist Taliban regime, which enables the German government to carry out regular deportations to Afghanistan without the involvement of intermediary states.<\/p>\n
In early June, a mass deportation of men required to leave the country to Afghanistan – originally scheduled for the end of May – was cancelled because the Taliban authorities refused to cooperate.<\/p>\n
Critics say the German government does not recognize the Taliban due to their human rights violations – particularly those affecting women – but, at the same time, makes practical concessions to facilitate deportations.<\/p>\n
These include permission to send individual diplomats to the Afghan missions in Germany, where previously only diplomats who had been posted there by the previous government had worked.<\/p>\n
No details regarding those deported on this occasion were initially made public.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan is currently experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis. At least 3.7 million young children and 1.2 million pregnant or breastfeeding mothers are considered acutely malnourished. Experts report critical levels of hunger in almost all of the country’s provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany has once again deported Afghans to their home country on a charter flight. “This morning, 31 Afghan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8162,406,30408,5,4626,48274,48273,19048,36193,48275],"class_list":["post-62908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-afghanistan","tag-alexander-dobrindt","tag-charter-flight","tag-germany","tag-interior-ministry","tag-kabul","tag-kabul-airport","tag-southern-germany","tag-taliban","tag-taliban-authorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}