Chancellor Scholz wants to facilitate the deportation of serious criminals to Afghanistan and Syria. A former SPD leader is pushing for speed – and negotiations with the Islamist Taliban.
Former SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel is calling on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to enter into negotiations with the Taliban, who rule Afghanistan, in order to implement his proposal to deport serious criminals. “The federal government must attempt to negotiate with the Taliban itself in order to make deportations to Afghanistan legally sound,” wrote Gabriel in a guest article for the “Bild am Sonntag” newspaper. “It must demand verifiable guarantees from Kabul that deportees will not be tortured or killed.” In addition, the federal government must “financially reward states that take back their compatriots when they do not have the right to stay here.”
After the fatal knife attack on a police officer in Mannheim, Chancellor Scholz (SPD) announced that he wanted to make it possible to deport serious criminals to Afghanistan and Syria again. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is currently examining this. Since the Taliban regained power in Kabul in August 2021, there has been a deportation ban for Afghans in Germany. Critics warn against negotiations with the Islamist Taliban, as they should not be recognized and no money should flow that could then be used to build up terrorist networks in Germany.
Gabriel: It was high time for a change
Gabriel went on to say that the federal government must also make it clear that governments that refuse to accept their citizens can no longer expect any help from Germany – and in case of doubt, no EU visas for the political and economic elite of these countries either.
The former SPD leader accused Scholz of hesitant behavior in the deportation debate. “It was high time that Olaf Scholz ushered in this change,” wrote Gabriel. “If you remember his time as Interior Senator in Hamburg, Scholz can be tough. Flaw: Even then in Hamburg, the change came too late,” wrote Gabriel. “And now the SPD had to plummet to a shameful 15 percent before the Chancellor did what he always said he would: show leadership and put the critics in his party in their place.” It is actually not difficult to understand: “Anyone who flees to us from abroad but commits crimes or even murders here loses our protection.”
Source: Stern
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