Algeria Agrees to Receive Nationals Deported From Germany
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Popular German Newspaper “Bild” revealed -based on information that were obtained from government sources- that the three Maghreb nations, which are Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, accepted to receive its citizens, who were presented as refugees in Germany, in exchange for financial assistance that is provided by the German government in the areas of development and vocational training.
“Senior officials from the German Interior and Development of International Cooperation Ministries, are currently visiting the three Maghreb countries, and finished negotiating with officials there on the main rules of an agreement for organizing the deportation of the three countries’ citizens as refugees in Germany.”
“German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maisiére, will visit Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, by the end of February, to sign the agreement. The three Maghreb countries refused, until a recent time, to fulfil its international obligations and restore its refugees from Germany.”
The newspaper quoted a representative of the Christian Social Party in the German parliament, as saying that; “Aid to the Maghreb countries is less expensive to Germany than to support the citizens of these countries, which were rejected by the German authorities as refugees.”
Accusation of security and political officials and media reports to the citizens of the North African countries, of being implicated in sexual harassment incidents in the German city of Cologne during the New Year celebrations, coincides with a large German controversy about a significant increase in the numbers of asylum seekers from Morocco and Algeria.
New procedures that were approved by the German government includes tightening the German asylum law, expanding the circle of countries that are classified by Germany as safe countries, to include Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, in addition to the previously classified countries like Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo.
According to the new law, asylum seekers from these countries will be placed in a special reception centres with people who are lacking acceptance of refugees opportunities in Germany, where they will ask for asylum and wait the decision of approval of rejection during a week, then deport them afterwards.