Deportation freight: collective deportation to Pakistan – 19 offenders

Germany has brought 43 people who are obliged to leave Pakistan by charter flight, including 19 offenders. As the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced, the aircraft had started in Frankfurt am Main on Tuesday evening and ended up in Islamabad on Wednesday morning. According to a spokesman for the EU Border Protection Agency Frontex, three other Pakistani people who are obliged to leave from Austria and ten from Cyprus were brought on board before the machine finally headed Pakistan.

Mandatory people from eight federal states

According to the information, people were driven by Hesse, Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Bremen and Brandenburg to Frankfurt Airport and handed over to the federal police there. According to security circles, the criminals among them – including multi -fabric circles such as sexual coercion, attempted manslaughter, dangerous bodily harm, sexual abuse of children, predatory theft and drug trafficking.

Last year, 20,084 people were deported from Germany. Among them were 169 that were flown to Pakistan. Most of them were brought back to their country of origin with Frontex-financed charter flights. The remaining deportations to Pakistan took place by scheduled flight.

In 2024, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) decided on 2,915 asylum applications from people from Pakistan. In almost every tenth case, applicants either received protection status or a ban on deportation was issued. At the end of January 2025, according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, 3,895 Pakistani citizens who were subject to departure in Germany were honored, 3,232 of them were tolerated. Anyone who is subject to departure, but cannot be deported at short notice for certain reasons, receives a toleration. This can be the case, for example, if someone has no ID documents, is sick or has a minor child who has a residence permit. The tolerance is always limited.

Frontex coordinates joint return flights and also surgically supports the member states in the event of deportation. Last year Frontex supported the Member States in returning almost 56,000 people. In 64 percent of the cases, according to the border protection agency, voluntary return of departure is subject to retirement.

“The federal government continues to campaign for consistent deportations,” said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In January there were 1,733 deportations from Germany, almost 40 percent more than in the previous year.