Many Afghans and Syrians from Baden-Württemberg are ripe for deportation

A large number of Afghan and Syrian citizens could be deported from Baden-Württemberg to their homeland as soon as the federal government gives the green light for this again. The Ministry of Justice did not comment on whether and when additional Afghans who had to leave the country would be deported from the south-west in response to a state parliamentary question from the FDP parliamentary group.

“The message is clear: anyone who commits a crime here must leave our country. It is now important that the Federal Government’s efforts do not stop at the same charter measure for Afghanistan at the end of August. The federal government must continue to guarantee export options to Afghanistan and also allow exports to Syria. That is the clear expectation from us and from the people of our country,” said State Secretary for Migration Siegfried Lorek (CDU).

Recently, Afghans were deported to their homeland for the first time since the Taliban came to power three years ago. Of the 28 Afghans deported, 5 were in Baden-Württemberg. They are all convicted, serious criminals who had no right to stay in Germany.

Suffering from Syria and Afghanistan

According to the Ministry of Justice, 1,510 Afghan nationals were accepted in Baden-Württemberg on June 30, 2024. Of these, a high double-digit number are legally obliged to leave the country. This means that it would be possible to export at any time. They are all serious criminals and people who are a threat to the security of the country.

As can be seen from the state parliament research, there were also 982 Syrian citizens living on 30 June. Of these, a high single-digit number are legally required to leave the country. These are also great criminals.

It is not yet possible to say how many Afghan and Syrian nationals would have their stay interrupted if export flights to Afghanistan and Syria were to resume. Each case requires an investigation to determine if there are barriers to export. “This cannot be achieved for the number of people mentioned in the short time and with a reasonable administrative effort,” wrote the Ministry of Justice.

In the attack in Solingen, the attacker killed three people with a knife and wounded eight others. The suspect is the 26-year-old Syrian Issa Al H. He is in custody, the federal prosecutor’s office is investigating him for, among other things, murder and suspicion about membership in the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS). And the armed Islamist who was killed by police in Munich was known to the authorities as an al-Qaeda sympathizer in Syria.