From Düsseldorf, rejected asylum seekers have been flown out to Afghanistan. On board the machine were at least 24 men – including a convicted perpetrator of the beating attack of Amberg.
Germany has again deported rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan on a charter flight. The machine with at least 24 men on board landed in the capital Kabul in the morning. Officials at the airport confirmed the arrival.
Also a perpetrator of Amberg on board
On board the machine was also a rejected asylum seeker who was involved in the beating attack in Amberg, Upper Palatinate. The adolescent, sentenced to six months on probation, was in the deportation flight from Dusseldorf to Kabul, according to the Bavarian State Office for Asylum and Repatriation.
At the attack in Amberg, four young asylum seekers had attacked passers-by and police indiscriminately shortly before the turn of the year under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The now deported was taken directly after the conviction in deportation detention.
Collective flights remain controversial
In addition to Bavaria, according to the information, the states of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Schleswig-Holstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin participated in the collective deportation. With a total of 14 deportees most lived last in Bavaria. Among them were, according to authorities, six convicted offenders.
It was the 24th collective deportation since the first flight in December 2016. So far, federal and state governments had already returned 565 men to Afghanistan.
The deportations are controversial because of the tense security situation in the country. In the fight against the terrorist militia „Islamic State“ and the Taliban, 581 civilians were killed, from January to the end of March, according to the UN report. Following a collective deportation in July last year, a man committed suicide on his arrival in Kabul.
