Afghanistan deportations: SPD politicians are demanding approaching to Taliban

The violent act of Munich rekindles the deportation debate. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been pre -rushed up immediately after the presumably motivated amoking.

“Those who commit crimes in Germany are not only punished hard and have to go to prison,” said Scholz, “but also has to expect that he cannot continue his stay in Germany.” This also applies to countries in which returns are difficult, says Scholz.

Above all: Afghanistan, which has been under control of the Taliban since 2021. Germany has so far rejected official talks with the Islamist regime and does not maintain a diplomatic representation in the country in order not to upgrade the radical rulers.

If this makes deportations according to Afghanistan enormously, it practically only makes them possible via detours. Shortly after the knife attack in Solingen, a deportation flight started from Germany to Afghanistan last August, but for the first time since the Taliban seizure of power three years ago.

The act of Munich is once again focused on asylum policy and the question: Does Germany have to negotiate with the Taliban in order to enable direct deportation to Afghanistan?

Politicians from the Chancellor’s Party are now calling for a rethink, pleading for more pragmatism. “Our goal must be to enable direct flights to Afghanistan to return asylum seekers to return,” says Dirk Wiese, deputy SPD parliamentary group leader, the star. “That means talks with difficult conversation partners in Afghanistan. But it is the bid of the hour.” Again, “there is no space for ideologies or moral maximum demands,” says Wiese. His word has weight. Wiese is the spokesman for the mighty Seeheimer Kreis, the conservative current of the parliamentary group.

Nils Schmid, foreign policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, sees it similarly. Schmid also promotes Kabul for more intensive contacts. Although he continues to be right to organize deportations to Afghanistan via neighboring countries, even if that is tedious.

He thinks of politically recognizing the Taliban regime for the wrong way. “However, according to Munich’s act of violence, we should intensify our contacts with the Taliban at the technical level, for example between our interior authorities,” said Schmid that star. “We should also set up a diplomatic presence on site.” In this way, the situation can be better assessed and questions how regular deportations could succeed from severe criminals or rejected asylum seekers from Germany to Afghanistan, “solve more and more easily”.

Shortly after the violence of Munich, the Taliban offered themselves as interlocutors, and was open to cooperation in deportations. However, the rulers in Kabul explained that they would expect consideration for possible cooperation on this question.

“We have shown our willingness to resume the consular services for Afghans in Germany that cover all aspects of migration,” the German press agency quoted the spokesman for the Taliban State Department, Abdul Kahar Balchi.

The Taliban rejected a detour via neighboring countries of Afghanistan like Pakistan, as it has been considered by the Federal Government in the past. “We are not ready to accept irregular procedures that handle Afghanistan and pose a danger to our national security,” said Balchi. A possible punishment of the criminals after their arrival in Afghanistan should be regulated by bilateral conversations.

In other words, the internationally isolated Islamists insist on direct conversations and apparently see deportations the chance of gaining internationally recognition.

According to the violent act of Munich, further deportation fees with criminals from Germany to Afghanistan are apparently not imminent, so not even shortly before the Bundestag election. When asked about the corresponding demand, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit in Berlin said, “if you think the next few days, until February 23, I would not want to give you over -the -fold hopes.” One is intensely on it and cannot say exactly how quickly it is.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, SPD, had emphasized after the violence of Munich that the deportations to Afghanistan would continue.

A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior complemented that such measures could not be announced in concrete terms or speculating over times so as not to endanger them and warn people. It is very intensely working to enable further deportations to Afghanistan.