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“Don't know where you are”: Afghan woman from Munich worries about family and existence

2021-08-21T05:48:10.842Z


A Munich restaurateur from Afghanistan fears for the lives of her loved ones back home. Here in Germany, she herself stands before the shards of her existence.


A Munich restaurateur from Afghanistan fears for the lives of her loved ones back home.

Here in Germany, she herself stands before the shards of her existence.

Munich - Narges Amerchel sits in her restaurant and cries. Actually, the restaurateur should be in the middle of the stress of moving - she was fired. She would have to pack boxes, haul tables, hang out the lovingly attached decorations. The big Buddha image that hangs on the wall of her Afghan bar Bamyan Narges also has to go. It reminds Amerchel of one of the most beautiful moments in her life: As a little girl, she and her mom watched the sunset in one of the two 55-meter-high Buddha statues in Bamiyan. “The sun sank between mountains and sand, the colors were indescribably beautiful. It was my lifelong dream to save this beautiful memory of Afghanistan over to Germany. "

The Buddhas no longer exist, they were destroyed by the Taliban in 2011.

Just like Amerchel's happiness in life: the Afghan woman's family is stuck in Kabul.

She herself stands in front of the shards of her existence in Munich *.

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The 35-year-old opened her Afghan restaurant at Hans-Sachs-Strasse 3 in the Glockenbachviertel eleven years ago.

“It was tough in the beginning,” she recalls.

“There was a gay bar in here before.

It took a long time to get accepted. ”But the capable businesswoman struggled through.

Together with her family, she established her restaurant in the district and won many regular customers.

"It was always a lot of work, but we were satisfied and could live well."


And then Corona came. "I could no longer afford the cost of around 10,000 euros a month." Funding came too late and was not enough. The landlord had no mercy. “I was behind on my rent and he gave me notice.” Amerchel has to get out by August 31st. She takes a mountain of debt with her.

But she lacks the time and energy to take care of her problems, possibly to find a new place.

“I need all my strength now for my family,” she says.

Her husband's daughters (15 and 18 years old), brothers and sisters, their aunts, cousins ​​and cousins ​​are stuck in Kabul.

“I don't know where they are,” says Amerchel desperately.

"My husband's daughters must have barricaded themselves in a cellar." In a video that the girls sent, they cry and call for their father.

Then the contact broke off.


Munich restaurateur worries about relatives in Afghanistan - "Don't know where they are"

Two days before the Taliban marched into Kabul, Amerchel spoke to her aunt on the phone.

“My aunt saw the disaster coming.

She cut off the hair of herself and her four daughters and masked their breasts so that they could not be recognized as women.

Then they fled.

I don't know where you are now. "

The fact that they can hardly do anything breaks her and her husband's heart.

"I hang out on the phone for hours every day to reach someone at the Foreign Office," says Amerchel.

In the meantime, she has learned from the immigration authorities that relatives from Germany cannot apply for an urgent visa for relatives in Afghanistan.

“The people in Afghanistan have to apply themselves.

But that is currently impossible because the Taliban have surrounded the embassies and are sealing them off with gun violence. "

Another family from Munich has temporarily failed to leave Afghanistan.

However, US forces were the obstacle here *.

Amerchel does not know how to proceed.

But she wants to keep fighting.

For your family - and your lifelong dream.

(Daniela Pohl)

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