The asylum seeker Nasibullah S. from Afghanistan, who was unjustly deported from Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), is on his way back to Germany. The 20-year-old flew from Kabul to the Pakistani capital Islamabad and is scheduled to come to Germany on Sunday, as the German Press Agency in Kabul has been confirmed. First, the NDR had reported on the return flight.
By the end of last week, according to SPIEGEL information from government circles had been called, the necessary papers for the return trip would be. Originally, S. should return on Friday. Because of a delay in the flight to Islamabad but he could not reach the local German embassy in time, it said. There he should receive a visa for the onward journey.
The costs for the complex return must be borne by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf). Because it was this authority that had made the corresponding mistakes.
Procedure for asylum application from 2015 is still ongoing
Nasibullah S. is said to have belonged to the group of 69 people who had been flown to Kabul on 3 July. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) had joked after the collective deportation, "just" 69 Afghans were deported on his 69th birthday. His comments took many as cynical. The day after it was announced that one of the deportees had committed suicide after his arrival in Kabul.
In the case of Nasibullah S. NDR had already reported that the man had applied for asylum in December 2015, the Bamf had rejected the application in February 2017. On the other hand, the Afghan complained. The procedure had not been completed at the time of deportation.
"Because of the ongoing asylum claim, no deportation should have been allowed," the station quoted a spokesman for the administrative court Greifswald. In the week after the deportation, the refugee should have been heard in court.
Countries stick to their hard line
The case became known only two weeks after the deportation. The Bamf then admitted "procedural errors". According to Seehofer, the authority had misidentified the identity of the man. After the deportation, the Foreign Office initially made sure that the man near Kabul was safely accommodated.
Despite the multiple mishaps, the countries, especially Bavaria, stay with their hard line. According to SPIEGEL information, another so-called deportation flight from Munich to Kabul is planned for next Tuesday. According to lawyers, the authorities in Munich have already taken several deportation-dependent men into deportation detention in order to take them directly from there to the plane.
So far, Germany organized six return flights to Afghanistan in 2018, bringing a total of 148 Afghans to Kabul. Interior Minister Seehofer had said after taking office as interior minister, for him it was a priority to increase the number of deportations significantly.