Illegal deportation: the procedure was still ongoing – also ill and deported

Berlin –

69 people boarded a plane that took off from Munich to Kabul on the evening of 3 July. These are unsuccessful asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer a few days later, during the presentation of his "master plan migration", which provoked a Witzelei, which earned him strong criticism. The Minister of the Interior was visibly pleased that the same number of people had been expelled on his 69th birthday.

Since then, the debate on the German deportation policy has not stopped. Seehofer pushes for the subject, he wants to be deported faster and more frequently. Tragically, just one day after his controversial statements, it became known that one of the Afghans had committed suicide after arriving in Kabul.

The 23-year-old man lived in Hamburg for eight years and was deported for multiple crimes, but he reportedly had serious mental health problems before being deported. Last weekend, he was buried by his family in Balch Province, one of the most precarious of Afghanistan

The action against deportation was still pending

Nasibullah S., also 20 years old, was on board the plane. wrong. After researching the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, he lived in a refugee shelter in Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The man had applied for asylum in December 2015, but his application was rejected by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) last February.

The young man complained to the Greifswald Administrative Court. When the police removed him from his home, the lawsuit was still pending – so he should not have been deported, as the court has now confirmed.

The case also does not give a good light on the authorities. Also Seehofer, to whom the Bamf is subordinate, had to admit on Wednesday that "here obviously an error of authority has occurred". The minister took the responsibility to Bamf, already much criticized. The CSU politician has promised, however, that he will always ensure that law and order are respected, in case something turns out to be illegal.

The Bamf, meanwhile, admitted serious mistakes. As a result, the authority even sent the same man's asylum decision to a wrong address, and then it was assumed that the decision had been legally rejected – despite a court order to the contrary. Therefore, the Bamf also did not inform the competent immigration office that the complaint had not been filed too late. The authority now wants to "quickly execute the necessary steps for recovery".

Already the second illegal deportation

is already the second case of an expulsion probably illegal in a few days. Last Friday, the alleged former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden Sami A. had been evacuated to Tunisia, although a court recently ruled that deportation was not allowed in Tunisia. because of the threat of torture. The decision reached the competent authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia, but too late. It is now suspected that the court has not been deliberately informed of the impending expulsion, although it has been prepared for days.

Expulsions to Afghanistan have already been politically challenged for years, the Greens and the left because of the precarious situation again and again a deportation stop. However, the federal government is of the opinion that some parts of the country are safe enough to bring people back. After the heavy attack on the German embassy in Kabul, only convicted criminals, Islamist perpetrators and people who refuse to establish their identity should be expelled.

Trainees sat in the airplane

but the practice has long since changed. Stephan Dünnwald of the Bavarian Refugee Council had strongly criticized this newspaper, among the 69 deportees, there was also a person who had been deported directly from a psychiatric clinic in Munich. Two other people also had serious mental health problems and apprentices were also in the machine.

In early June, the federal Cabinet agreed that no restrictions on deportation to Afghanistan would apply anymore. Shortly before, the Federal Foreign Office had submitted a much anticipated report on the security situation, in which once again the image of a state devastated by war and corruption had been drawn. The practice of deportation has nevertheless been tightened.

Fighting between Islamist militias and government forces has intensified in recent years, with hundreds of thousands fleeing their own country. The new United Nations population shows how much the civilian population suffers. At least 1692 civilians were killed in the first six months of this year, which is a sad new record.