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EU agency kept in dark on forced flight abuse

Topic
Frontex Deportation
Country/Region
Afghanistan Germany

09 October 2019

"Witnesses of abuse during a forced-return flight to Afghanistan last year preferred telling national authorities rather than informing the EU's border agency, Frontex."

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"The returns, on a flight from Munich to the war-torn country on 14 August 2018, had been coordinated by the EU agency, but were marked by reports of severe violations inflicted by German escort officers on a terrified Afghan man."

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