Horst Seehofer about the suicide of a refugee

Federal Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, is shocked by the suicide of a young Afghan who was deported from Germany to Kabul. "This is deeply regrettable, and we must manage it objectively and with care," said Seehofer in Innsbruck.

On Wednesday, we learn that one of the 69 Afghan asylum seekers recently fled to Germany in the Afghan capital. took. On Tuesday, Seehofer welcomed the presentation of his "Migration Master Plan": "It's on my 69th birthday that 69 people have been sent back to Afghanistan – which I have not ordered – well beyond what happened was common. "

The man was reported to the Interior Ministry of the city of Hamburg for deportation." The federal states are driving us these people, and we support the federal states with these deportations. " Ask the Hamburg authorities, "why they suggested this person." According to the authority of the aliens, the man was 23. In a statement by Pro Asyl, it was also said that the young man should have lived in Germany for eight years.

With the recent expulsion charge, Bavaria alone had deported 51 Afghans, and the states of Baden-Württemberg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony , Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein participated according to BMI.

Demands for the resignation of the opposition

Especially with the opposition, Seehofer's declaration triggered outrage SPD politicians, Green s and the left party took its statement as cynical and strongly criticized the CSU man. Seehofer himself regretted his tone, however, not: "I did not know yesterday." This is announced in the morning, "he said about the Afghan suicide

.His resignation was late, said Katrin Göring-Eckardt, leader of the Green Party:" The deportations are not made for jokes. "For Seehofer, the decisions concerning human life are" in the wrong hands. "

Demands for resignation were also noisy: It is high time that Seehofer leaves," said Wednesday the parliamentary director of the Party leftist in the Bundestag, Jan Korte, with. The chairman of the Human Rights Committee in the Bundestag, Gyde Jensen (FDP), told the "Tagesspiegel" that Seehofer was "due to his cynical remarks" obviously wrong in the office. "