Germany to send 12,000 Afghan migrants home, says it’s safe enough – report

‘More than 12,500 Afghan refugees in Germany will be sent back to their home country because the security situation there is considered safe enough by German officials, a national newspaper reported.
The newspaper cites a German Interior Ministry document, which is said to be the government’s formal reply to a question posed by the leftist party Die Linke. It states that about 5 percent of the nearly 247,000 Afghans who had arrived in Germany by the end of September will probably have to return to their homeland because the security situation there is stable enough for them to be repatriated.
“A worsening of the security situation across the country cannot be confirmed,” Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper quoted the Interior Ministry as stating, adding that the “threat to Afghan civilians has not changed as compared to the previous year.”‘
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