Federal recording program
Flieger landed – Germany is taking up other Afghans
The promised recordings of Afghans are continued. Another aircraft ended up in Leipzig. The procedure is controversial.
A plane with Afghans chartered by the federal government ended up at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Wednesday evening. A total of 138 people arrived, a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said on request. The flight started in Islamabad.
According to the Federal Foreign Office, the passengers are people from various programs who have received a legally binding commitment. According to the Interior Ministry, 45 children and young people are among the people who ended up in Saxony in the evening. 76 female and 62 male people have arrived, said a spokesman. “In these cases, there are specific admission commitments already given in the past,” he emphasized. New commitments would not be granted. For the federal government, security has a top priority in these recordings. Therefore, each individual is checked accordingly before a possible entry.
According to the Federal Foreign Office, around 2,600 particularly endangered people from Afghanistan are currently waiting in Pakistan for their admission in Germany. In addition to former local forces of German institutions and their relatives, Afghans are also said to be admitted that the persecution of Islamist Taliban must fear, for example because they have been committed to lawyers or journalists for human rights in the past.
The Union politicians were outraged to the flights that are still planned for April. In the CDU, CSU and SPD coalition agreement, it says: “We will end voluntary federal recording programs as far as possible (for example Afghanistan) and do not set up any new programs.” The CDU interior expert Alexander Throm referred to this. The executive Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock obviously wants to create facts before the new federal government in office, he said in the ARD.
Afghans, who are waiting for their departure in Islamabad as part of the entrance programs, could soon come under a lot of pressure. Pakistan started with a new deportation wave of Afghan refugees in early April.
dpa
Source: Stern
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