DIn February 2023, Germany deported a man to Niger in a specially chartered plane. The foreigner was a convicted rapist, as the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” reported, citing the Interior Ministry of Saxony-Anhalt.
The repatriation cost 120,450 euros. This is according to a response from the federal government to a small request from the Left Party group in the Bundestag.
The asylum seeker from Niger raped a girl in Dessau in June 2019 and was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. Since 2019, the Interior Ministry of Saxony-Anhalt had tried to deport the man. However, this failed due to a lack of travel documents.
It was not until the end of 2022 that Niger issued the necessary documents, which were only valid for one day and one flight. Therefore, the authority decided on a mini-charter flight from Leipzig to avoid any risk of flight cancellation.
Last year, 15 deportations were carried out by private jet, with up to four people being able to fit on one plane. A total of 41 people were deported this way, most of them to Turkey.