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Dobrindt Defends Taliban Talks, Vows Regular Deportations to Afghanistan

He also stands by border pushbacks despite court defeats, insisting the course has public backing.

Mit scharfen Worten verteidigt Dobrindt Gespräche mit den Taliban über Abschiebungen: „Das ist im Sicherheitsinteresse der Menschen in unserem Land“
Innenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) will weiter an Grenzkontrollen und Zurückweisungen festhalten.
Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) hat Gespräche mit den radikalislamischen Taliban über Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan verteidigt. "Das ist im Sicherheitsinteresse der Menschen in unserem Land", sagte Dobrindt am Donnerstag im Bundestag.

Overview

  • In Bundestag budget debates, the interior minister said Germany will continue returning convicted offenders to Afghanistan on a regular basis.
  • After a July charter that removed 81 serious offenders, his ministry held early-September technical talks with Afghan representatives in Doha about further flights, which the government said do not amount to recognizing the Taliban.
  • Greens and The Left condemned the contacts as a political taboo and faulted bureaucratic hurdles that have stalled entries for approved Afghan local staff.
  • A Berlin administrative court ruled in June that certain pushbacks on German territory were unlawful, yet Dobrindt reiterated he will maintain the policy and argued he now has majority support.
  • Focus reported the ministry moved to end a lawsuit over a Somali pushback by joining an Erledigungserklärung, a step the Berlin court confirmed procedurally.