Returns
After 15 years: Austria pushes back to Syria
For a long time, nobody was deported from Austria to the civil war country. After the fall of Assad, the situation has changed. Austria attributes a criminal, Germany is not yet.
Austria has deported a Syrian to his home country for the first time in around 15 years. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) laid the basis for this on a joint trip to Syria with his then German colleague Nancy Faeser (SPD) in April, it said from the Interior Ministry in Vienna.
A Syrian offender was brought to Damascus on Thursday with a regular flight from Vienna with a stopover in Istanbul, the Austrian Ministry said. Karner described this return as a “strong signal”. “We will continue this path with hard work and reprint,” announced the conservative minister.
Austria had not deported any people there during the civil war in Syria. After the fall of the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad last December, the Interior Ministry in Vienna prepared a return and deportation program. Since then, more than 350 people have voluntarily returned to Syria, it said.
The German Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) has referred to returns to Syria as an currently unsolved problem. “With Syria there are contacts to an agreement to attribute Syrian offenders. The results are not yet available,” he told the magazine “Focus” in a conversation published on Thursday.
dpa
Source: Stern
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