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Afghanistan
Afghan asylum seeker deported from Germany kills himself
2018-07-12
[Al Jazeera] An Afghan asylum seeker who was deported from Germany last week after spending more than eight years in the country has killed himself, Afghan and German officials have said.

The 23-year-old did away with himself at a hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday after being forcibly returned on July 4 along with 68 others, an Afghan official said.

A German interior ministry confirmed the news at a regular news conference saying: "We received confirmation from the Afghan authorities today morning that one of the passengers on the repatriation flight was found dead in accommodation in Kabul.

"According to the Afghan authorities, it was a suicide."

On Tuesday, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer appeared to joke that the 69 deported Afghans were a birthday present.

"Just on my 69th birthday - and I didn't request it - 69 people were sent back to Afghanistan," he said with a raised smile on his face.

"That's way above earlier levels."

Posted by:Fred

#4  Suicide, or the result of unacceptable European social practices?
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-07-12 13:31  

#3  Was he biologically 23?
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-07-12 12:03  

#2  According to the Afghan authorities

That's where I stop for salt.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-12 05:45  

#1  Mentally unstable and violent. Germany dodged a bullet.

Lucky he didn't drive a Truck of Peace[tm] through Germany and suicide himself that way.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-07-12 04:35  

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