An Afghan child rapist has been handed €1,000 by the German government following his deportation back to his homeland along with 27 other convicted criminals.
The unnamed individual claimed to be 16 years of age when he was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Neustrelitz Castle Park back in July 2022.
The case sparked outrage among conservative politicians after the perpetrator received a one-year suspended prison sentence for the attack.
However, Germany’s Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser confirmed that 28 Afghan criminals had been deported in the first repatriation effort to Afghanistan since the return to power of the Taliban.
The deportees had all been convicted of serious offenses in Germany during their stay in Europe, including rape, aggravated arson, and drug offenses. Some had been under orders to leave German territory since 2019 but had remained living in the country.
Each migrant received €1,000 from the federal government to assist with living expenses in their homeland for between six to nine months.
State ministers affiliated with the current left-liberal traffic-light federal coalition government have started to talk tough on the deportation of foreign criminals following a surge in support for anti-immigration parties.
“For us, anyone who has a right to protection will find help in Rhineland-Palatinate, but we have no place for anyone who commits serious crimes in our society,” said Rheinland-Pfalz Integration Minister Katharina Binz of the Greens.
“We have to significantly increase the number of deportations,” said SPD Interior Minister George Maier in Thuringia, the German state that witnessed a historic victory for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party over the weekend by topping the polls for the first time ever in a state election.
Rhetoric across Germany towards the ramping up of deportations has increased recently following the latest stabbing spree in Solingen where a Syrian migrant stabbed several people at a diversity festival, killing three.
