Germany is considering deporting Afghan migrants who pose a security threat back to Afghanistan, the interior minister said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
The decision comes in wake of the attack that occurred last Friday when a 25-year-old Afghan man stabbed six men, including a police officer, during an anti-Islam demonstration at “Marktplatz” square in Mannheim.
According to Reuters’ report, such a decision would be controversial as Germany does not repatriate people to countries where they are threatened with death. It stopped deportations to Afghanistan after the Taliban took power in 2021.
However, just days before European elections in which the far-right is expected to perform strongly, the minister said she had been intensively looking at the issue for months and planned to make a decision as soon as possible.
“It is clear to me that people who pose a potential threat to Germany’s security must be deported quickly,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told reporters, adding this included sending people to Afghanistan and Syria.
In the last few days, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has used the attack to call for a tougher migrant policy.
