For the first time since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, Germany has deported people there. Details about those affected are now becoming known.
According to Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, Germany has deported “28 criminals” to Afghanistan. The SPD politician announced this on Platform X. “Our security counts, our constitutional state acts,” she wrote. Faeser thanked the federal police and the states for their close cooperation. The deportation was the first to Afghanistan since the Taliban took power three years ago. The names of the people involved are now becoming clear bit by bit.
Deportations of people from several federal states
Three criminals from Bavaria are among the passengers. As Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) announced, two of them were sentenced to prison terms for sexual offenses and the third for an offense under the Narcotics Act. They are 27, 29 and 30 years old.
“We were able to deport five serious criminals to Afghanistan today,” said the Baden-Württemberg State Secretary for Migration Siegfried Lorek, CDU, on those deported from his state. “This is a gain for security in our country.” According to Lorek, among those deported is “a convicted criminal who, together with three other perpetrators, raped a then 14-year-old girl over several hours in the Ulm area.” The crime took place in Illerkirchberg in 2019.
Among the others were “serious violent offenders who had been sentenced to several years’ imprisonment for attempted murder”, as well as a convicted “multiple and intensive offender who had been convicted more than 160 times”.
Out of Thuringia According to SPD Interior Minister Georg Maier, an Afghan national was deported. The 25-year-old had been convicted of, among other things, grievous bodily harm and theft with weapons.
As the “Welt” newspaper reports, two Afghan criminals from Saxony-Anhalt on board. They are “two male persons,” as the “Welt” quotes the country’s Interior Ministry. “One person was convicted of two counts of rape and is serving a youth sentence of several years. The second person was convicted of sexual abuse of minors; he is currently under investigation by the public prosecutor for rape and distribution of narcotics to minors,” the report summarizes.
Federal government’s actions controversial
Also from Lower Saxony Five criminals were deported. As the “Spiegel” quotes Interior Minister Daniela Behrens of the SPD, they were between 20 and 30 years old and “were either deported directly from prison or from freedom”.
The deportation of criminals to Afghanistan is controversial because the radical Islamic Taliban rule the country. Critics believe it is incompatible with the constitution and international law because there is a risk of human rights violations in Afghanistan. The interior ministers of the states, however, are pushing for the deportation of serious criminals and Islamist threats to Afghanistan and Syria as well.
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Source: Stern
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