The Ministry of the Interior has deported a Syrian perpetrator to his home country on Thursday. Last week the project was blown over the country because of the closed airspace.
The background was the war in the middle. It is the first deportation to Syria for 15 years. “The deportation that is being carried out today is part of a tough and therefore honest asylum policy,” said the Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP). The path to bring convicted criminals from the country will “be continued with hard work and emphasis”.
In the current case, it is a 32-year-old who recently published a seven-year prison sentence for various crimes. For security reasons, it was not said for security reasons. It was initially not known what information is available for the Syrian authorities and what consequences could threaten him in his home country. “We cannot currently say whether this person is being arrested or tortured,” said it.
At the end of April, Karner and his German counterpart Nancy Faeser had visited Syria and was looking for a conversation with the new rulers. At that time there was “concrete implementation steps” in the return and deportation of Syrian criminals.
Absolutely unusual in the EU
EU deportations to Syria are currently absolutely unusual. According to the Ministry of the Interior, Austria is the first European country to have officially deported a Syrian criminal in his house in recent years. However, statistics of Eurostat suggest that some dozens of people from Romania and Hungary have been transferred to Syria.
Since the fall of the Assad regime at the end of 2024, 350 Syrians from Austria have voluntarily returned to their home country.
Source: Krone
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