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Berlin (dpa) - The deportation freeze for Syria, which has existed since 2012, expires at the end of the year.
During the deliberations of the federal and state interior ministers, the representatives of the SPD-led states were unable to assert their demands for an extension.
This was confirmed to the German Press Agency by participants in the conference, among others from the group of SPD-led countries.
This means that from next year the authorities will be able to examine such a possibility in each individual case.
Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU), as spokesman for the Union-led countries, had already emphasized during the deliberations that the question of a possible deportation did not even arise for the vast majority of Syrian refugees.
It is about the small group of serious criminals and threats, i.e. people who the security authorities trust in the most serious politically motivated crimes, including terrorist attacks.
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The population cannot be expected to stay in this country, said Herrmann.
"In individual cases, it must be possible to check whether they can also be returned to their home country."
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU), who was represented by a state secretary at the conference after contact with a corona-infected employee, had previously called for this.
The Union-led countries have been pushing for an end to the blanket deportation freeze for a long time, and the issue has sparked heated discussions at earlier conferences of interior ministers.
Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius, as spokesman for the SPD-led countries, said in the afternoon that the discussion was unrealistic.
Deportations to the civil war country are currently not technically and practically possible, if only because Germany has no diplomatic relations with the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
This meant that there were no contact points to organize a return.
In addition, no one should be deported to a country where he is threatened with torture or death.
If the deportation stop is not extended, he will keep track of how many people are actually deported.
Herrmann said that Assad supporters had also come to Germany who said they were being persecuted by the IS terrorist militia.
"When I send someone like that back to Damascus, it is not at all apparent that something is threatened by the regime there, so to speak."
Assad opponents, on the other hand, could possibly be sent to parts of the country under the control of Turkey or Kurdish groups.
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From the Greens and the left came strong criticism during the talks.
The Green politician Claudia Roth accused the interior ministers of the CDU and CSU of irresponsibility.
"The fact that the Union's interior ministers want the ban on deportation to Syria to expire at the end of the year is a scandal and cannot be beaten in terms of irresponsibility," she said.
Syria is a torture state, a dictatorship and still a war country in which no one is safe.
Even in the case of delinquency, it is not justified to expose people to danger to life and limb.
The domestic political spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group, Ulla Jelpke, spoke of “propaganda against refugees”.
Syria is not safe, the Federal Foreign Office also pointed out in its situation report.
"Human rights are indivisible, and they also apply to so-called threats and criminals - nobody is allowed to be deported to Syria."
In its internal report, the Foreign Office had written: "Despite the relative decline in the fighting, according to the United Nations, there are still massive human rights violations by various actors in all parts of the country."
Because of the Corona crisis, the conference is taking place in a small group with a few ministers in Berlin, the rest will be switched on.
It ends on Friday.
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