Afghanistan: Thousands still waiting to leave for Germany

Months after the seizure of power in Afghanistan from the fundamentalist Islamist movement of Taliban, thousands of Afghans who worked for the German army, the German embassy and other German public institutions still waiting to leave the country for Germany, wrote on Tuesday (7/12) the newspapers of the Funke group, citing data from the federal Ministry of Interior.

Based on the answer of the Ministry of Interior to a question submitted to the Bundestag, the federal lower house, by the party “The Left”, Germany accepts applications from nearly 25,000 Afghans seeking relocation to European country. From them, have been transferred to German territory 7,033, broadcasts the APE-MPE.

They were 24,556 people, 4,590 former or former German civil servants and 19,966 members of their families. Their applications were approved between 15 May and 26 November.

To date, 1,319 employees and 5,711 family members have been relocated.

“Small number of people have relocated”

Gokai Akbulut, a member of parliament for the Left Party, described the number of people transferred from Afghanistan to Germany as very small. Ms Akbulut told the Funke group newspapers that former German federal workers in Afghanistan were experiencing “fear and insecurity” and that they had little chance of leaving their homeland without help.

He called on the new federal government to speed up and simplify the reception process and arrange for their removal and relocation.

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