Germany Updates: Berlin Deports Dozens of Iraqi Citizens
GERMANY, JUL 22 – The 43 deported Iraqi men included single individuals with some having criminal convictions, reflecting Germany's stricter migration enforcement under Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
- On Tuesday, Germany deported 43 Iraqi citizens from Leipzig Airport to Baghdad, with the operation confirmed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Migration of Thuringia.
- In the lead-up to the flight, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt advocated harsher migration measures, and he said the flight was part of his new policies.
- According to the Ministry of Justice of Thuringia, all deportees were single men, some with past convictions, and the flight left at 10:52 am.
- It was the first deportation charter since February, according to dpa.
- With 816 Iraqis deported last year, EU interior ministers are meeting in Copenhagen on Tuesday to address irregular migration and organized crime.
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In the future, up to 100 people will be sent back to their home countries via the facility. Construction outside the airport site on Freisinger Grund will be established.


German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is pushing for a much tougher approach to immigration.
On Tuesday, the German authorities announced the deportation of refugees who were obliged to leave the country, with an aircraft taking off from Leipzig airport in the east of the country to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, with a number of Iraqi refugees on board. According to the German news agency (DBA), based on the data of the Flyet Radar 24 site, the aircraft departed at 10:52 a.m., while police officers supervised the escort of the deportees u…
Only a few days ago, criminals were deported to Afghanistan. Now a deportation flight to Iraq has started in Leipzig.
According to the portal "Flightradar24", the destination is the capital city of Baghdad. According to the news agency dpa, the police had monitored the handling of the flight before taking off and accompanied the passengers individually into the machine. There is no confirmation from the Federal Government so far.
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