It follows as the city of Mannheim experienced a violent knife attack by an Afghan asylum seeker that left one policeman dead
Nancy Faeser, the government’s interior minister, told Bild, the German tabloid: “We are negotiating confidentially with various states to make deportations to Afghanistan and Syria possible again.
“We particularly want to consistently deport violent Islamist perpetrators,” she added.
Migration has been a burning political issue in Germany for months. In May, the city of Mannheim experienced a violent knife attack that left one policeman dead and five others injured, including an anti-Islam activist.
Sulaiman Ataee, a 25-year-old Afghan asylum seeker whose initial application was refused according to Bild, was charged with murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
About a million Syrians and 400,000 Afghans live in Germany.
Almost all Syrians are successful in their applications for asylum, but a recent ruling by a higher court in Muenster found that conditions in Syria are no longer dangerous enough to justify a blanket ban.
This is despite reports that the country is experiencing its worst escalation of violence since 2020.
Reports by the UN, EU and Amnesty International all concluded that migrants returned to the country are at risk of human rights violations, “including torture and persecution”.
In the UK, the Conservatives had planned to send failed asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to Rwanda, but after Sir Keir Starmer scrapped the plans on his first day in office, migrants are unlikely to be deported back to conflict zones.
The government faces heavy criticism over the plans as Syria and Afghanistan are not considered safe spaces by many European countries, including the UK.
The Green-controlled foreign office wants to block deportations to Syria. A confidential foreign office report stated that “combat operations of varying intensity” were continuing “in all parts of Syria”.
The United Nations has said the “conditions for the safe return of refugees” are therefore “not present”.
However, the Christian Democrats said the interior ministry does not go far enough, with Mario Voigt, a senior politician, calling for any Syrian national who does not have the right to remain in Germany to be deported.
Mr Voigt told the Stern magazine: “The court ruled correctly that there is no serious and general danger to life and limb in Syria. Therefore, it is absolutely wrong to continue to grant subsidised protection to refugees from Syria in general.”
He also said Germany should openly “enter into a dialogue with the Assad regime together with other EU states”.
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