(AFP) An asylum seeker deported to Afghanistan this month will be returned to Germany, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the latest of a series of scandals surrounding Berlin’s hardening migration policy.
A ministry spokeswoman said the federal migration and refugee agency (BAMF) “will quickly take the necessary steps to bring back” the 20-year-old identified only as Nasibullah S.
The young man had been flown to Afghanistan along with 68 other failed asylum seekers in early July despite an ongoing legal appeal against his deportation.
Germany’s hardline Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, who has repeatedly challenged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s more liberal stance on migration issues, admitted that “apparently there were bureaucratic mistakes made at the BAMF” in its handling of the case.
