(DPA) A controversial debate in Germany over whether to resume deportations of convicted criminals to Syria and Afghanistan was the main topic of discussions as interior ministers from the country’s 16 states convened just outside of Berlin on Wednesday evening.
The state ministers are pushing to resume deportations to both countries despite gruesome records of serious human rights abuses for the regimes in power there.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has previously backed such a change, and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck voiced his support on Wednesday, at least in cases where individuals are suspected terrorists or convicted of very serious crimes like murder.
