The decision comes as millions of refugees are now able to return to Syria following the fall of al-Assad's regime.
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00:00Germany and Austria have put a hold on processing Syrian asylum applications as Syria's political
00:08future is currently too uncertain, local media have reported.
00:13The decision comes as millions of refugees are now able to return to Syria following
00:17the fall of al-Assad's regime.
00:20You have to assume that the rebels who have won now have close relations to Afghanistan,
00:28to the Taliban, these are not good signs.
00:31That means today, at the moment, it is absolutely too early to predict whether it means that
00:38more people will return to Syria or whether more people will come to us.
00:43To be honest, I am shocked that just a few hours after the fall of this bad regime
00:49in Damascus, Germany is speculating about it, or is being directly asked, we still have
00:54to talk about deportation.
00:55I think this is more than cynical and, to be honest, also populist and it is very much
00:59about the lives of many German Syrians and people who come from this region.
01:04Local authorities said over 47,000 applications were affected by the application freeze in
01:09Germany, but that there was no impact on existing applications which were already decided on.
01:15In Austria, 7,300 applications were affected.
01:19That was confirmed by the Interior Ministry to local media.