Criticism of the deportation practice in Hesse

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Left accuse the state government made up of the CDU and the Greens of a “merciless” policy. The state parliament has rejected a petition by a Kurdish deported to Turkey.

After the deportation of four convicted criminals: inside the parliamentary group of the left criticized the deportation practice of the black-green state government. On Tuesday, the 60-year-old Kurdish woman Afitap D., who had lived in Germany for 35 years and is the mother of a mentally disabled son, was deported to Turkey. Mutlu B., a 31-year-old born in Wiesbaden, who does not speak Turkish, was flown out with her.

The Ministry of the Interior had confirmed the deportations of the woman and the man and two other men to the FR. All four were “enforceably required to leave the country” and were sentenced to several years’ imprisonment for considerable or multiple criminal offenses. According to reports, two of the four deported had been convicted of incitement to murder and extortion by robbery several years ago. All have now served their sentences.

As reported, several aid organizations and the parliamentary group on the left had campaigned against the deportation of the 60-year-old woman and mother of five adult children, who are all German citizens. Just last Sunday, the Darmstadt alliance “Community for all”, which is campaigning for the closure of the only deportation detention center in the country in the Darmstadt district of Eberstadt, called for a demonstration in front of the facility.

Saadet Sömnez, the migration and integration policy spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group in the state parliament, said on Friday that “de facto residents” had been deported last Tuesday. Sömnez demanded that the state government put an end to the “merciless deportation policy”. Instead, the government should “use its leeway to create effective regulations on the right to stay,” said Sömnez.

The deported Mutlu B., who claims to be the father of a daughter, reported on Friday from Istanbul that he had worked as a welder, cook and in the security industry in recent years. Before he was put on an airplane, the federal police officers blindfolded him, put on a waist belt and handcuffed his hands and feet. Because of the police officers’ tough action: inside he had bruises on his arms. He missed his daughter and now “doesn’t know what to do next” and where to go, said B. He was also afraid of being drafted into the Turkish military.

Dersim D., one of the sons of the 60-year-olds who were deported to Turkey, reported that his mentally handicapped brother was now “massively scared”. “We are doing our best and now we feel like strangers in our own country,” said the computer scientist. His mother took good care of him and his siblings, especially the disabled brother whose legal guardian she was. “Germany is tearing families apart,” complained D.

Dorothea Köhler, the spokeswoman for the “Community for all” alliance, which supports people in custody and beyond, described the deportation policy as “racist”.

Kaweh Mansoori, deputy chairman of the Hessian SPD, also criticized the “questionable deportation practice in Hesse”. When it came to the deportation of the mother, Mansoori said that setting an example to a 60-year-old, who would then be separated from her son in need of care, was “inhuman”.

Eva Goldbach, the domestic political spokeswoman for the Greens, announced that deportation could only take place on a clear legal basis that took into account humanitarian criteria as well as any criminal offenses committed. A deportation was preceded by numerous tests. In the case of Ms. D., a petition had also been sent to the state parliament. According to Goldbach, “no parliamentary group with knowledge of the specific facts saw any reason to object to the decision made on the basis of the factual and legal situation”. A spokesman for the left faction said, however, that the left had supported the petition.

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