Germany Sends First Deportation Flight to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover

Published on August 30, 2024

Germany resumed flying convicted Afghan criminals to their home country on Friday, as Berlin reversed its policy on deportations to the Taliban-run nation. Der Spiegel reported that a flight from Leipzig to Kabul took off on Friday morning with 28 convicted criminals aboard after months of secret negotiations mediated by Qatar. Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit described the deportees as convicted criminals, but as yet hasn’t clarified their offenses. Berlin thanked “key regional partners” for their support in a statement and said that similar deportations were in the pipeline Olaf Scholz’s coalition government came under pressure to take a tougher stance on migration following an ISIS-linked mass stabbing at a “Festival of Diversity” in Solingen a week ago, which left three people dead and eight others wounded, and an Afghan man knifing a German policeman to death in Mannheim in June....

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