The criticism of the federal government in view of the Afghanistan policy continues.
Last but not least, beer and wine were flown back to Germany in June.
Berlin / Kabul - The takeover of power by the Taliban has led to extreme conditions for local workers in Kabul.
Fear, despair and hopelessness spread.
As Bundeswehr captain Marcus Grotian explained on Monday evening in the ZDF “heute journal”, hundreds of local workers are “in the death trap”.
In any case, the federal government is facing massive criticism because of the late and chaotic evacuation operation.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) is accused of ignoring early warnings from the German embassy in Kabul regarding the advance of the radical Islamic Taliban.
According to Grotian, not a single visa process has started since June.
Local Afghan workers stayed in Kabul for at least eight to ten weeks, hoping to find a way to freedom there.
Troops withdrawal from Afghanistan: beer and wine were flown back to Germany
It is precisely in this situation that, in retrospect, an explosive detail about the withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan comes into focus.
At the beginning of June,
Der
Spiegel
reported an extraordinary logistical plan: According to information from the news magazine, enormous quantities of beer and boxes of wine and sparkling wine were to be flown back to Germany.
Specific figures were also given: there was talk of 65,000 cans of beer and shandy as well as 340 bottles of wine and sparkling wine.
At the time, according to
Der Spiegel
,
soldiers in Afghanistan were told
that the repatriation had been decided.
Professional destruction is unlikely to be possible in Afghanistan.
Even though no enforcement report was made public, it appears that Germany has organized transport capacities for beer and wine - Afghan local workers who worked in the interests of development aid were left behind.
"Then we're talking about 20,000 people": Would you rather be beer than rescue local staff?
"Do you think it is right that there is only a privileged departure option for forces who have helped the defense forces - or does there really have to be something like that for development workers as well?", FDP MP Christoph Hoffmann asked Foreign Minister Maas on June 9th in Bundestag.
Maas replied that the Taliban will have the scepter in hand "in a few weeks" is not the basis of his assumption. “As much as I support it, everyone who has worked for the federal government and who is in an immediate danger situation is now offered the opportunity to come to Germany. To extend that to development aid, then we will no longer talk about 2000 people, then we will talk about 20,000 people, ”he explained. It looks like a “mass exodus” from Afghanistan, Maas said at the time.
A few weeks later there is talk of a mass exodus of a different kind: a huge number of refugees and the apparently hopeless situation of the local staff. There are now 1900 local Afghan workers in Germany, Maas said on Monday when he admitted a "misjudgment" of the situation in Afghanistan.
(mbr)
