On Tuesday, Germany in the EU demanded further deportations to Afghanistan.
A day later comes the sudden change.
Berlin - Germany is no longer deporting people to Afghanistan * for the time being.
"Due to the current developments in the security situation, the Federal Interior Minister decided to suspend deportations to Afghanistan for the time being," said a spokesman for the Federal Interior Ministry on Wednesday of the dpa.
On Tuesday, Germany and five other EU countries, namely Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Greece, urged the EU in a letter to continue deportations to Afghanistan - despite the advance of the radical Islamic Taliban.
On Tuesday, they conquered the eighth provincial capital within a few days.
The Taliban are accused of violating human rights.
Deportations in Afghanistan: Seehofer changes course - sharp criticism had preceded
There was repeated sharp criticism of this demand, but also of the German deportation flights that had been announced for some time. Green leader Robert Habeck indirectly accused Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) and Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) of “exporting” the “death penalty” *. On Tuesday, 26 organizations called for a deportation freeze. In view of the initiative of Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) and other EU counterparts, he could "only shake his head," said Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn on Wednesday the
Tagesspiegel
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The Federal Foreign Office recently worked on a reassessment of the situation in Afghanistan *. In view of the speed with which the Taliban are bringing large parts of Afghanistan under their control, international criticism of the withdrawal of NATO troops from the country is growing. (
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