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Deportation to order
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Hello, neighbor: Austria’s then Interior Minister Nehammer and his German counterpart Seehofer after a conference on escape routes in 2020.
(Photo: Georges Schneider/Imago)
The security situation in Kabul was already catastrophic. Nevertheless, Austria’s Chancellor Nehammer apparently asked the then German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer in the summer of 2021 to organize a repatriation flight. And he gave in.
By Manuel Berwarder
Constanze von Bullion, Cathrin Kahlweit, Lena Kampf and Martin Kaul, Berlin
The six Afghans were already on the plane in Munich, they were to be deported to Kabul. At around 9 p.m., however, the news came: the security situation was unclear after the attack, armed groups were in the streets of Kabul, civilian air traffic was suspended. Forty minutes later, at around 9:40 p.m., the men were taken out of the plane by federal police officers. deportation aborted. It was the end of a failed German-Austrian special operation.
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