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Dresden: Afghans go into hiding before being deported – Interior Minister reacts!
Dresden: Three Afghans disappear before a deportation flight to Kabul. Interior Minister Schuster is planning changes to the law.
Dresden: Afghans go into hiding before being deported – Interior Minister reacts!
Recently, a failed deportation flight from Saxony to Kabul caused a stir and discussions about deportation practices in Germany. Last Friday, July 21, 2025, 84 Afghans were supposed to be on board a flight from Leipzig/Halle, but ultimately three seats remained empty because these men went into hiding shortly before departure. Loud Picture The three Afghans had previously been in deportation detention in Dresden and were released through the intervention of their lawyers from the Saxon Refugee Council.
The lawyers had submitted follow-up applications for asylum, which led to the men being released by court. The Saxon Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) criticized this as a “typical dive” and spoke of a misuse of applications without substance. Schuster plans to bring this process to the next conference of interior ministers and is calling for a legal change to regulate the use of last-minute follow-up asylum applications.
Facts of the deportation
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) had already rejected the three men's applications in record time. Nevertheless, the applicants disappeared 48 hours before the scheduled departure. A court had previously stopped the deportation until the follow-up asylum applications were examined. One of the three Afghans has since resurfaced, while the other two are still on the run and have not received any state benefits since then World reported.
All three men have lived in Germany for over ten years and have had criminal convictions for theft, drug trafficking and assault in the past, which they have already served. Their original asylum applications were rejected between 2018 and 2020, so they are generally considered obliged to leave the country.
Legal framework
The legal requirements allow a follow-up application to be submitted even at the last minute, which Schuster sees as problematic. The Interior Minister emphasizes that the authorities adhered to the legal requirements. Nevertheless, he sees the abuse of follow-up asylum applications as an urgent problem that needs to be addressed.
In summary, this incident shows the challenges that German authorities face when dealing with returns. The debate about stricter rules for follow-up asylum applications is now in full swing, while the increase in uncoordinated disappearances remains a hot topic.