“I envision us making agreements directly with Afghanistan to enable deportations,“ Alexander Dobrindt said in an interview with Focus magazine.
Germany stopped deportations to Afghanistan and closed its embassy in Kabul following the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.
Twenty-eight Afghan nationals who had been convicted of crimes were deported in August last year after Germany’s previous government carried out indirect negotiations with the Taliban.
Germany’s new government, a coalition between the conservative CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), has promised to expel more foreign criminals alongside a crackdown on irregular migration.
Longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December. The country is now under the control of Islamist leaders, some of whom were once linked with the Al-Qaeda jihadist network.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz this week said he believed “deportations to Syria are possible today, given the current circumstances and situation”.
Austria on Thursday deported a Syrian convict back to Syria, becoming the first EU country to do so officially in recent years. – AFP
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