Berlin. Chancellor Scholz wants to allow the deportation of serious criminals to Afghanistan and Syria. A former SPD leader is pushing for speed – and negotiations with the Islamic Taliban.
Former SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel calls on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to begin negotiations with the Taliban who rule Afghanistan in order to implement their initiative to deport serious criminals. “The federal government must try to negotiate with the Taliban itself to make deportations to Afghanistan legally binding,” Gabriel wrote in a guest article for “Bild am Sonntag”. “It must demand verifiable assurances from Kabul that deportees will not be tortured or killed.” Furthermore, the federal government must “economically reward states that take back their countrymen if they do not have the right to remain with us.”
Following the fatal knife attack on a police officer in Mannheim, Chancellor Scholz (SPD) announced that he would make the deportation of serious criminals to Afghanistan and Syria possible again. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is currently examining this issue. Since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in August 2021, there has been a halt in the deportation of Afghans in Germany. Critics warn against negotiations with the Islamic Taliban because they should not be recognized and money should not flow that could then flow to the establishment of terrorist networks in Germany.
Gabriel: It’s about time for a change
Gabriel further wrote that the federal government must also make it clear that governments that refuse to accept their citizens can no longer expect any help from Germany – in case of doubt, no EU visas for the political and economic elite of these countries.
The former SPD leader accused Scholz of hesitant behavior in the deportation debate. “It’s about time Olaf Scholz started this turnaround,” wrote Gabriel. “Anyone who remembers his time as Senator for the Interior in Hamburg: Scholz can be tough. Cosmetic defect: “Even back then, in Hamburg, the change came too late,” wrote Gabriel. “And now the SPD had to fall to a shameful 15 percent before the chancellor did what he always announced: show leadership and put his party’s critics in their place. In fact, it is not difficult to understand: “Who runs away”. for us abroad, but if you commit crimes or even murders here, you lose our protection.”
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