More than 12,500 Afghan refugees in Germany are likely to be sent back to their home country because the security situation there is considered safe enough by German officials, a national newspaper reported.
The ‘Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung’ newspaper has cited a German Interior Ministry document, which is said to be the government’s formal reply to a question posed by the leftist party Die Linke. It states that about 5 percent of the nearly 247,000 Afghans who had arrived in Germany by the end of September will probably have to return to their homeland because the security situation there is stable enough for them to be repatriated.
"A worsening of the security situation across the country cannot be confirmed,” the newspaper quoted the Interior Ministry as stating, adding that the “threat to Afghan civilians has not changed as compared to the previous year." According to the paper, 27 rejected Afghan asylum seekers have been deported from Germany this year, compared to nine in 2015.
The German Interior Ministry’s positive assessment of the security situation in Afghanistan comes at a time when Taliban militants have intensified their attacks in various parts of the country.
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