A month ago, a large collective deportation took place for the first time since the beginning of the corona pandemic. Now dozens of Pakistanis have again been brought to the South Asian country. In Pakistan, some men were immediately arrested again.
Islamabad (dpa) - In the midst of the corona crisis, another deportation flight from Germany landed in Pakistan. There were 33 Pakistanis on board the machine, as the Federal Criminal Police in Pakistan (FIA) told the German Press Agency.
The flight arrived in Pakistan's capital Islamabad early in the morning and had taken off from Munich on Tuesday evening.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, 24 men were deported from Germany, seven from Austria and two from Poland. 143 security officers accompanied the collective deportation to the South Asian country. The federal states of Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse took part in the deportation.
Some of the 33 men were taken to a detention center in Islamabad. They are accused of violating national migration laws, such as paying smugglers to flee via neighboring Iran. They will be presented to a judge within the next few days. Several relatives were waiting for their relatives outside a police building in Islamabad.
A month ago, for the first time since the start of the corona pandemic in Germany, there was a major collective deportation, also to Pakistan.
Germany has never officially suspended deportations outside of Europe. The number of deportations to non-EU countries had nevertheless fallen sharply since March, as there were hardly any flights and states with reference to infection protection refused to take back their compatriots.
So far, around 290,000 coronavirus infections have been detected by tests in hospitals in Pakistan. More than two million people have been tested. In the meantime, normality has returned to the country, there are hardly any restrictions as a result of the pandemic. Since June 20, international flights to Pakistan have been allowed again.
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