German interior officials call for deporting Afghan after police stabbing.

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German interior officials call for deporting Afghan after police stabbing.

German Interior Chiefs Urge Deportations to Afghanistan After Police Stabbing – Reports.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – German interior ministers will discuss lifting curbs on criminal deportations to Afghanistan after a police officer was stabbed to death by an Afghan citizen last week, German media reported on Monday.

The motion that seeks to reverse the Foreign Office’s 2021 ban on deportations to Afghanistan was filed by Hamburg interior chief Andy Grote, Bild daily reported. The interior ministers will look into the proposal when they gather for a regular conference near Berlin from June 19-21.

The motion tells Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser to make sure that the Foreign Office reviews its security assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Syria’s capital region to give a go-ahead to repatriations of criminals convicted of serious offenses.

A proposed deal with Pakistan will ensure that Afghan citizens will be delivered by land to the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, which has had no ties with Germany since the Taliban* (under UN sanctions) overran Kabul in summer 2021.

The debate over repatriation of violent criminals reignited in Germany after a rejected asylum seeker from Afghanistan stabbed a police officer, resulting in the officer’s death. Interior Minister Faeser has demanded the harshest penalty for the attacker, suggesting the assault could be Islamist-motivated.*

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