A deportation flight of Afghan offenders from Munich Airport back to their home country was stopped at the last minute.
The reason are Taliban attacks.
Munich Airport
- A deportation flight of Afghan nationals from Munich Airport back to their home country planned for Tuesday evening, August 3, was apparently stopped at the last minute.
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reports, the flight was scheduled for 9:30 p.m.
An hour earlier, nine of the total of 13 reported Afghans, all of whom are considered criminals, were brought into a Boeing 767 at the special terminal of the airport.
But the flight did not take place.
Munich Airport: Deportation flight to Afghanistan stopped - Ministry spokesman comments
The Afghans reported came from several federal states. In Vienna, two more Afghans were to be added during a stopover, after which the flight, accompanied by 30 police officers, was to continue to Kabul. Immediately after the handover of the migrants in Afghanistan, the security personnel were to be flown out again. The costs for the deportation campaign should amount to around 300,000 euros, according to picture information.
As the newspaper now claims to have found out, the refusal of the deportation was carried out by the Ministry of the Interior, but without the knowledge of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
A ministry spokesman stated that the flight will now be "rescheduled".
The recent attacks in Kabul might have jeopardized the smooth process of the deportation, which is why the flight was canceled.
The spokesman did not give an exact date when the deportation could be made up for.
Deportation to Afghanistan: machine at Munich airport does not take off - Taliban discussions
Several people were injured in an explosion near the home of the defense minister in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday. Despite the advance of the Taliban, State Secretary for Migration Siegfried Lorek defends the deportation of offenders to Afghanistan as constitutional and necessary. "It is right and important that we deport criminals and extremists," said the CDU politician of the German press agency. “It is people who impair the security of the people here on site. If we have the opportunity to deport them under the rule of law, then we have to take this opportunity. "
Most recently, CDU boss Armin Laschet and Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) had spoken out in favor of holding on to deportations to Afghanistan.
In the past few years only men - mainly criminals and so-called terrorist threats - had been returned to Afghanistan against their will.
The Bundeswehr ended its deployment there at the end of June.
Since then, the Islamist Taliban has been on the rise again there and spreads fear and terror with attacks that often kill civilians.
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