Beschränkte Kooperation: Abschiebungen: Taliban entsenden Team nach Deutschland

The Islamic militant group Taliban has temporarily deployed additional personnel to Germany. The German government granted permission for these representatives of Afghan leaders to return more individuals who are required to leave the country. According to the Foreign Office, "To meet the coalition agreement's objective of repatriations to Afghanistan, official documents must be issued that the de facto government recognizes."

This requires not only sufficient manpower but also the technical prerequisites, especially if the number of repatriations is expected to increase. "To swiftly establish these technical prerequisites, a technical support team has arrived." Initially, the NDR reported on the arrival of this group. Only men have been expelled so far since the start of the current parliamentary term.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior reported that a total of 228 men have been expelled to Afghanistan so far, primarily criminals. The most recent collective expulsion, consisting of 23 individuals, took place on Tuesday from Leipzig/Halle Airport and headed to Kabul. The German government authorized the deployment of individual Taliban diplomats to Afghan representations in Germany to enable these expulsions.

Previously, only diplomats who had been sent by the previous government had worked there. In early June, a planned collective expulsion was canceled because the Taliban leaders were not cooperating. They had shown dissatisfaction over what they perceived as insufficient willingness to communicate from the foreign representatives.

Critics, including those from the Greens, have repeatedly criticized the German government for making practical concessions to enable expulsions, despite not recognizing the Taliban government, particularly due to human rights violations against women.