Germany's Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz is open to the possibility of deporting convicted serious criminals to Afghanistan and Syria.
The discussion on deportations has been reopened since a police officer was killed in an attack with suspected jihadist motives. The incident occurred on Friday at a town square meeting in Mannheim in southwestern Germany, where a 25-year-old Afghan man is suspected of going on the attack with a knife.
Deportations to Afghanistan have been halted since the Taliban regained power in 2021, but last week, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that this may now change.
On Thursday, Scholz warned against stigmatizing all immigrants and using the Mannheim incident to do so.
