28 criminals flown out - Refugee Council criticizes deportation: "Cooperation with the Taliban has become socially acceptable"

FOCUS online 28 criminals flown out - Refugee Council criticizes deportation: "Cooperation with the Taliban has become socially acceptable" Article by dpa • 1 hour • 2 minutes reading time Police officers accompany a man onto a charter plane For the first time since the Taliban seized power three years ago, Germany has deported Afghans to their country of origin. The Saxony-Anhalt Refugee Council has sharply criticized German foreign policy and called it a "farce." The Saxony-Anhalt Refugee Council has sharply criticized the deportation of 28 Afghan criminals to their homeland. No crime in Germany justifies the deportation of people to torture and inhumane treatment, according to a joint statement from the federal states' refugee councils. "With this flight, Germany has made cooperation with the Taliban socially acceptable." It is a regime that disregards human rights, that has banned girls and women from public life and that arbitrarily imprisons, tortures and kills people. "Farce": Saxony-Anhalt Refugee Council criticizes German foreign policy "This flight is a breach in German foreign policy, contributes to the legitimization of the unjust regime in Kabul and makes all the assurances of the Federal Foreign Minister that she will not cooperate with the Taliban a farce," criticize the refugee councils. On Friday morning, a deportation flight from Germany to Afghanistan took off for the first time since the Taliban seized power three years ago. The 28 people were convicted criminals who had no right to stay in Germany and against whom deportation orders had been issued, said government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit. According to the Interior Ministry, two Afghan criminals from Saxony-Anhalt were also on board. The flight took off from Leipzig/Halle airport. Five other Afghans were supposed to be deported The deportation flight to Afghanistan was actually supposed to include five other people - a total of 33 people. This was reported by MPs after a meeting of the Bundestag's Interior Committee in Berlin. Two of those scheduled for deportation were not found in the morning, said FDP MP Manuel Höferlin. Three of the five people concerned were not cleared for deportation by the state justice authorities because, in the view of the public prosecutor's office, they had not yet served a sufficient portion of their sentence in this country. In the past, the federal government had always stressed that criminals should only be deported if they had served a significant portion of their sentence imposed in Germany.