Overview
- Groups led by We’ll Come United, Seebrücke and Widersetzen have called coordinated demonstrations for Saturday, October 24, 2026, at airports and cities including Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin and Leipzig.
- The Flughafen München GmbH supervisory board approved the separate Munich deportation terminal despite opposition from the City of Munich and employee representatives while a planfeststellungsverfahren and a Freising veto remain unresolved.
- Campaigners say the Munich facility could process 100 individual removals plus two charter flights a day and that Germany already relied on about 7,600 charter deportation seats in 2025 at a cost near €33 million to avoid in-flight resistance to single removals.
- New EU external-border rules (Geas) require Germany to provide 374 airport processing places so asylum requests made on arrival can be handled under special border procedures, a practice that allows applicants to be held at airports during processing.
- Opponents stress the human toll, saying many deportees are non-violent or minors and that forced measures such as restraints or sedation have been reported, and they warn that building dedicated infrastructure could normalize large-scale removals and be repurposed under harder political agendas.