Two flights meant to carry Afghans to Germany will not go ahead as planned this week, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, April 23rd, amid a growing row over the initiative.
Berlin has been periodically flying in Afghans deemed at risk of persecution and those who worked for German institutions, since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
The outgoing left-wing German government is continuing to bring in more Afghan migrants, and is also secretly flying in Sudanese people despite the incoming CDU/CSU-SPD coalition’s promise to shut down these resettlement programs.
Afghan migrants have been responsible for many terror attacks and violent knife crimes committed in Germany in the past year or so.
According to Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, a total of around 36,000 Afghan migrants have already been brought into the country via the government’s admission program.
Four flights carrying Afghans have landed in Germany since the German national election at the end of February, and the state of Saxony announced last week that two further flights were planned for April 23 and 29.
However, German foreign ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer on Wednesday said that “as things stand at present, no further flights are planned in the next two weeks.”
The German foreign ministry said last week that around 2,600 vulnerable people from Afghanistan were still waiting in Pakistan to be admitted to Germany.
