The deportations come a week after a deadly knife attack in the town of Solingen which left three people dead and eight others wounded.
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00:00Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the return of 28 Afghan nationals to Afghanistan
00:07a clear sign that foreign-born criminals will be deported.
00:11A government spokesperson said on Friday that they were all convicted criminals but didn't
00:16say what their offenses were.
00:19It's the first time Germany has deported Afghan nationals to their homeland since the Taliban
00:23returned to power in 2021.
00:26Germany doesn't have diplomatic relations with the group, which required the government
00:30to work through other channels to organize the deportations.
00:35The deportations come a week after a deadly knife attack in the town of Solingen which
00:39left three people dead and eight others seriously wounded.
00:43The suspect, named by prosecutors as Issa al-Aich, is a Syrian citizen who had applied
00:48for asylum in Germany.
00:50He was arrested on suspicion of murder and membership of a terrorist organization.
00:54The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for last Friday's attack without
00:58providing evidence.