|
2024-08-31 Europe
|
|
Germany Again Deporting Afghan Criminals
|
 [Epoch Times] Germany resumed flying convicted Afghan criminals to their home country on Friday, as Berlin reversed its policy on deportations to the Taliban-run nation. Der Spiegel reported that a flight from Leipzig to Kabul took off on Friday morning with 28 convicted criminals aboard after months of secret negotiations mediated by Qatar.
Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit described the deportees as convicted criminals, but as yet hasn’t clarified their offenses.
Olaf Scholz’s coalition government came under pressure to take a tougher stance on migration following an ISIS-linked mass stabbing at a "Festival of Diversity" in Solingen a week ago, which left three people dead and eight others wounded, and an Afghan man knifing a German policeman to death in Mannheim in June.
There has also been debate over immigration ahead of regional elections taking place on Sunday in Saxony and Thuringia.
The anti-immigration Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party is expected to do well in those eastern regions, with Scholz’s coalition government braced for substantial losses.
A strong showing for AfD would give the right-wing party a huge boost a year before the next national election.
In a bid to curb losses at those elections, Scholz’s government has announced tighter asylum and residency laws and procedures, including lowering the threshold for "severe deportation," when the deportee has committed a crime involving a weapon or dangerous tool.
"These were Afghan nationals, all of whom were convicted offenders who had no right to stay in Germany and against whom deportation orders had been issued," government front man Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement.
A chartered Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Airways flight bound for Kabul took off from Leipzig airport just before 0500 GMT with 28 Afghans on board, Der Spiegel magazine said, citing security sources.
The operation was the result of two months of "secret negotiations" in which Qatar acted as the go-between between Berlin and the Taliban authorities, Spiegel reported.
Hebestreit said Germany had "asked key regional partners for support in order to facilitate the deportations", without giving more details.
Germany completely stopped deportations to Afghanistan and closed its embassy in Kabul following the Taliban administration taking power in 2021.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday that Germany would resume expulsions to Syria and Afghanistan "very soon", as part of a package of measures to tighten security and asylum policies. 
|
Posted by Bobby 2024-08-31 00:00||
||
Front Page|| [11143 views ]
Top
File under: Taliban/IEA
|
|
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-31 06:46||
2024-08-31 06:46||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-08-31 08:15||
2024-08-31 08:15||
Front Page
Top
|
|
18:19 Angstrom
17:48 49 Pan
17:38 Lord Garth
17:29 alanc
17:09 BrerRabbit
16:13 Pancho Poodle8452
16:08 Beavis
16:08 Lord Garth
15:52 Lord Garth
15:28 trailing wife
15:26 Pancho Poodle8452
15:26 trailing wife
14:34 Frank G
14:28 Melancholic
14:27 NoMoreBS
14:14 swksvolFF
14:12 swksvolFF
13:54 mossomo
13:51 mossomo
13:50 NoMoreBS
13:50 Abu Uluque
13:44 Abu Uluque
13:41 NoMoreBS
13:39 Abu Uluque
|
