The dramatic situation in the Hindu Kush is driving many Afghans out of the country. That is why Germany is preparing to accept numerous refugees. The most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia is leading the way.
After the start of the evacuation flights from Afghanistan, the German federal states are preparing to accommodate several thousand refugees at short notice.
According to a survey by the German Press Agency (dpa), North Rhine-Westphalia alone wants to take in 1,800 people. As the Düsseldorf State Chancellery announced, it is about 800 Afghan local staff who have worked for Germany in recent years.
Another 1000 places are primarily intended for women from the fields of civil rights, art and journalism. The “Rheinische Post” reported about it first.
Baden-Württemberg expects to take in up to 1,100 local employees and relatives from Afghanistan. With no more than around 8,000 other local workers nationwide, the number will be “manageable”, according to the Ministry of Justice in Stuttgart. Additional places in the initial reception are therefore not necessary. In several German rescue flights, around 400 people were recently brought out of the country.
Lower Saxony will initially provide at least 400 accommodation places in the state’s initial reception facilities. Talks were in progress between the federal and state governments for further admission, according to the Ministry of the Interior in Hanover. Bremen had previously announced that it would offer up to 150 places for local Afghan workers and their families. “Leaving them behind and now extraditing them to the Taliban is forbidden,” said Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer (SPD). “You can talk about distribution keys later.”
Schleswig-Holstein is getting ready to accept 300 women and children. Hamburg has offered to accommodate at least 200 people affected. Several Bavarian cities have also declared their willingness to accept: Munich can take in 260 people at any time without red tape and has already signaled this to the federal government, said Mayor Verena Dietl (SPD). Similar offers came from Nuremberg and Regensburg, among others. Erlangen’s Mayor Florian Janik (SPD) said that his city could take in ten families at short notice.
Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saarland were also generally open to inclusion, but did not yet provide any specific figures. In Schwerin, for example, reference was made to the usual distribution key, according to which Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania takes in around two percent of the refugees. Sometimes there are also logistical hurdles to overcome: the five reception facilities in Rhineland-Palatinate are already half full – and full occupancy is not possible due to the corona pandemic.
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