Berlin - Germany has deported almost twice as many failed asylum seekers this year as in 2014.By the end of November, authorities had deported 18 363 people whose asylum request had been rejected, compared to 10 884 in all of 2014. Most of them were from western Balkan nations.A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, Johannes Dimroth, says the significant rise can be partly explained by the sharp increase in the number of people seeking asylum in Germany this year.But he told reporters in Berlin Read more [...]

Author: Associated Press. (AP) — Faced with an unprecedented influx of refugees and growing anxiety among voters, German authorities have stepped up the deportation of failed asylum-seekers.New figures show that the number of deportations almost doubled this year from 2014. By the end of November, authorities had deported 18,363 people whose asylum request had been rejected, compared to 10,884 in all of last year.“(The increase) can be explained on the one hand simply by the increasing Read more [...]

BERLIN –  Germany has deported almost twice as many failed asylum seekers this year as last. By the end of November, authorities had deported 18,363 people whose asylum request had been rejected, compared to 10,884 in all of 2014. Most of them were from western Balkan nations. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry Read more [...]

Berlin (dpa) - Germany has dramatically stepped up the number of deportations this year as the nation struggles to come to grips with a refugee crisis.By the end of November, 18,363 unsuccessful asylum applicants were deported compared with 10,994 for the whole of 2014, according to Ministry of Interior information in the hands of dpa.The southern state of Bavaria, which has been at the frontline of the refugee crisis, alone returned 3,643 to their homelands between January and the end of Read more [...]

By our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online         Berlin (dpa) - Germany has dramatically stepped up the number of deportations this year as the nation struggles to come to grips with a refugee crisis.By the end of November, 18,363 people had been deported compared with 10,994 for the whole of 2014, according to Ministry of Interior information Read more [...]

In 2014, German authorities registered 10,884 deportations. This year, the number rose to 18,363 until the end of November, the interior ministry said. According to the German Interior Ministry's figures, Bavaria sent 3,643 asylum applicants back home, almost three times compared to the number last year. The situation was the same in Hesse, where 2,306 refugees were sent away in 2015 compared to 829 a year before. 2,140 refugees from Baden-Württemberg were made to leave Germany this year, compared Read more [...]

By Edward Pentin | Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has made a rare public appearance in which he thanked civil and authorities from Bavaria for donating this year’s Vatican Christmas tree. Speaking to the dignitaries outside his Mater Ecclesiae… (0) NCRegister (9705 Posts) Read more [...]

The man brought his pistol to a car park in the sleepy St. Johannis district on the edge of the city, which is better known for its annual festival of Wagner operas than for violence. There he opened fire, killing the 33-year-old woman and her 65-year-old father and wounding her new boyfriend, 32, before turning the weapon on himself. Despite his injuries, the wounded younger man was able to flee from the attacker before being taken into the care of police officers as they rushed towards the Read more [...]

In a statement late on Sunday, police rushed to the quiet St. Johannis residential district on the edge of town at about 9:30 pm after reports of shots fired. They found three bodies lying beside parked cars. Emergency doctors called to the scene confirmed the deaths. One person was found alive, seriously but not life-threateningly wounded, not far from the scene of the killings, police said. He is currently being treated for his injuries. Officers found a single firearm close to the Read more [...]

By the end of November, there had been 18,363 deportations of failed asylum seekers, Interior Ministry documents seen by DPA showed. That was almost twice as many as 2014, when there were 10,884 deportations during the entire year. And some states were far more active than others. Bavaria deported more than three times as many people this year as last year, at 3,643 compared with 1,007 in 2014. And Hesse was close to a factor of three as well, sending 2,306 people back to their countries Read more [...]