Over 9,500 deportations in Germany until September

Germany deported 9,567 people between January and September this year, according to information from the Interior Ministry seen by dpa, reported dpa.

The ministry was responding to a request for information from lawmaker Clara Bünger of the hard-left opposition party, Die Linke.

In comparison, Germany deported 11,982 people total in 2021.

The Balkan states of Northern Macedonia, Albania and Serbia were the most common destinations for deportees, with each country receiving more than 600 people. Almost 600 people were deported to Georgia as well.

Deportations to EU countries Spain, France, Poland, Austria and Italy ranked some way behind.

In 10th place among the countries of destination was Turkey.

Bünger, the spokesperson on refugee policy in her parliamentary group, said, "again and again, people are deported to countries where they are threatened with severe political persecution, indiscriminate imprisonment and torture."

She cited as an example Turkey, where she said leftist and Kurdish opposition figures are being persecuted ever more ruthlessly.

"Refugees must not be de facto extradited to their persecutor states," Bünger said.