The deportation of the Afghan man suspected of the knife attack in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg yesterday, which killed two and injured two others, failed due to a missed deadline, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann announced today, quoted by DPA, BTA reports.
Herrmann said that Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees rejected the Afghan national's asylum application in June 2023. and ordered him to be deported to Bulgaria under EU migration rules.
However, "due to various errors and problems", immigration authorities in the southern state of Bavaria were only warned of the impending deportation on July 26, just 6 days before the deadline for its implementation.
"Such a return cannot be organized within 6 days - especially if it is completely unprepared," said Hermann.
After the deadline was missed, the 28-year-old suspect was not caught until December 2024. did not notify authorities that he wanted to return to Afghanistan.
However, he was unable to travel to his home country because he had not received the necessary documents from the Afghan consulate, Hermann said.
The minister added that deporting the man to Afghanistan would be difficult.