Faeser's asylum failure: missed deportation flights to Afghanistan

News38 Faeser's asylum failure: missed deportation flights to Afghanistan Marcel Görmann • 2 days • 2 minutes reading time It was just a side note in Friedrich Merz's asylum press conference - but it made people sit up and take notice. After the terrible bloodbath in Aschaffenburg, the Union's candidate for chancellor said: "The federal government must also make a greater contribution to the deportation of people who are required to leave the country, through the federal police. The federal government can no longer leave this task to the states alone. (...) The last deportation flight to Afghanistan took place in August last year." For the first time in three years, a plane flew from Leipzig/Halle airport to Kabul - there were 28 Afghans on board, all of them dangerous people and criminals who came from different federal states. The flight received a lot of media attention shortly before the state elections in the east. Some hoped for a turnaround with more consistent repatriations. Now the question arises whether this was just a PR coup! Asylum bombshell: Why were there no further deportation flights to Afghanistan? Asylum failure: State ministers do not understand why there was only one deportation flight Hesse's Interior Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) describes the flight as a "flash in the pan". His Saxon counterpart Armin Schuster (also CDU) is now demanding that the federal government organize a new deportation flight. "We have been asked by the federal government for months to have candidates ready for the next deportation flight. Saxony is able to deliver," said Schuster in an interview with the "Leipziger Volkszeitung". "Everyone is waiting for the second repatriation flight, but it hasn't come yet. If the federal government had the will, it could happen very quickly for us." States ready for more repatriations to Kabul In fact, the potential for further deportation flights to Afghanistan seems to be there. Hesse had already proposed 96 criminals for the flight in August, Lower Saxony and Bavaria around 40 each, and Saxony 20 people. More or fewer refugees? This is what the election manifestos say about migration policy Although the federal government had announced further flights, nothing happened. "We are working on further flights, there will be further deportations to Afghanistan in the near future," promised SPD Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in the Bundestag in October 2024. FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr called for Faeser to be expelled in an interview with the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland". "There were no detentions at the borders, no rejections, no further deportation flights to Afghanistan. The authorities still have no overview of which dangerous people are in Germany," said Dürr. "The perpetrator from Aschaffenburg was still in the country because the BAMF completely failed. The Chancellor must dismiss Minister Faeser."