Deportations to Afghanistan: debate about contacts with Taliban after attack by Munich

After the attack of Munich with two dead and many injuries, the call for negotiations with the Islamist Taliban about deportations to Afghanistan will be Lauter. Union and FDP spoke in favor of the Greens a strict rejection. According to the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Government is in contact with a office set up in Doha in Doha – but only on a technical and not at a political level.

Merz considers deportations to Afghanistan as possible

In the RTL four-round round of Chancellor candidates, CDU chairman Friedrich Merz said on Sunday evening that they could be deported to Afghanistan. “However, you have to be ready to negotiate with the Taliban,” emphasized the Union Chancellor candidate. “We give 300 million euros in development aid to Afghanistan. Why do we do this without talking about the Taliban?” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) refuses to have such conversations.

Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) said the “Bild am Sonntag” that a flight to Afghanistan needed every week. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) had already announced the deportation of the Munich assassin on Saturday. In the RTL four-round round, he pointed out that there was a deportation freight to Kabul last year. “And believe that we also had contacts with the Afghan government.” There will be further deportation fees.

FDP also demands direct contacts with the Taliban

The FDP also demands direct contacts from the government with the Taliban to create the requirements for deportations on a large scale. The liberals would also be ready to accept that there was again a consular activity of the Afghan state in Germany, said party leader Christian Lindner in Berlin.

He asked Foreign Minister Baerbock to enter into talks directly – “on a technical -logistical level”. It must be possible to “automatically and faster to fly to their country of origin”.

The designated FDP general secretary Marco Buschmann – previously in the traffic light coalition – said there were months when several thousand people from Afghanistan come to Germany. “Many of them have no right to be here permanently and you can already see the big numbers that are about. There are not two deportation fees every few months,” said Buschmann.

“German courts would always prohibit deportations if people specifically threaten death penalty, torture or inhumane treatment,” he said. It is the task of the Foreign Minister to negotiate such assurances.

Green against direct negotiations with the Taliban

The Greens reject direct negotiations with the Taliban and a German single -handedly when dealing with them. “This is a terrorist regime,” said her candidate for Chancellor Robert Habeck in the Quadrell, as RTL called the four -round round of the Chancellor’s candidates on Sunday evening. There is no country that entertain diplomatic relationships with the Taliban. “If you wanted to do that, that is a nobility for this regime that does bad things, then you urgently have to talk yourself with the Americans with your European partners and – if the Americans are still ready to talk.”

Foreign Minister Baerbock also refused negotiations with the Taliban in the “without excuse” of the “Heilbronn voice”. “To do a thing with Islamists, that no longer creates security, but endangers our security,” she said. Such negotiations would break everything that had been built in the fight against the Islamic state in recent years. Therefore, this regime cannot be dealt with as with other countries.

The domestic political spokeswoman for the Greens parliamentary group, Lamya Kaddor, told the “Rheinische Post”, and again and again the Taliban expressed their willingness to connect directly to the Federal Republic. “You can only warn against this, as this is equivalent to the establishment of official diplomatic relationships that we have not yet built up for good reason.”

German embassy in Kabul has hired service company

Germany is currently not diplomatically represented in the Afghan capital. The German embassy stopped the company in 2021 with the takeover of the Taliban, said a spokesman for the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. All other European countries would have done this. However, a liaison office in Doha was set up. “The federal government is in contact with the DE-FACTO government via this office at a technical level.” Employees of the office always traveled to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan continues to maintain a message in Berlin. According to the Foreign Office, the diplomats there were appointed to the Taliban power, but continued to do their consular tasks.

Attachment from Munich cost two lives

At the attack in Munich, a 24-year-old Afghan drove his car into a demonstration by the Verdi union on Thursday. A two -year -old girl and his 37 -year -old mother were so badly injured that they died in the hospital on Saturday. At least 37 other people were injured.

The investigators currently assume that the crime has an Islamist background. Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) said that the perpetrator was not conspicuous in advance.