{"id":7083,"date":"2026-06-17T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:05:27","slug":"germany-deports-30-criminal-offenders-back-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/germany-deports-30-criminal-offenders-back-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Deports 30 Criminal Offenders Back to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deportees had been residing in various German states including North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, and Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, according to <em>Junge Freiheit<\/em>. The aircraft departed during the night bound for the Afghan capital, while around 35 protesters gathered near the terminal to demonstrate against the deportations.<\/p>\n<h2>Taliban Agreement Enables Regular Deportations<\/h2>\n<p>Since autumn 2025, an arrangement between the Taliban government in Afghanistan and the German federal government has permitted Germany to conduct regular deportations to Afghanistan. However, the deportation program began earlier, with smaller groups of between 20 and 30 men being returned since August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A planned mass deportation flight failed in May after the Taliban refused to cooperate. The Afghan government complained about the insufficient staffing of Afghan diplomatic missions in Germany, arguing that more Afghan diplomats would be needed in the country to facilitate deportations of Afghan nationals. The Taliban also expressed dissatisfaction with the German Foreign Ministry&#8217;s lack of willingness to engage in dialogue.<\/p>\n<h2>Afghans Vastly Overrepresented in German Crime Statistics<\/h2>\n<p>Afghan citizens are significantly overrepresented in German crime statistics relative to their share of the population across multiple categories of offenses. While Germans register 163 suspects per 100,000 inhabitants, Afghans record 1,722 per 100,000, a rate more than ten times higher. Similar disproportionate patterns emerge in sexual offenses and drug-related crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The stark disparity in crime rates has intensified calls for more robust deportation measures, particularly for foreign nationals convicted of serious violent and sexual crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/jungefreiheit.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junge Freiheit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany deported approximately 30 Afghan men, including convicted killers and rapists, to Kabul under an arrangement with the Taliban government that has enabled regular deportations since autumn 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":7082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[238,7161,2209,25,5922,7162,4797],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-criminal-offenders","tag-deportation","tag-germany","tag-kabul","tag-leipzig-halle-airport","tag-taliban","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}