Leader of the Left party Ines Schwerdtner demanded a suspension of the repatriation of Syrian refugees amid the advance of Syrian government troops into Kurdish areas.
“An immediate stop to deportations to Syria is now required” Schwerdtner told the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland”. “The federal government must influence the states so that no one is flown back into the war zone. Even where there is no war, people are not safe”.
Schwerdtner added: “The authorities al‑Sharaa and his Islamist militias threaten, torture and murder people daily. Syria is not a safe country of origin. This is plainly shown by the bloody fighting in the northeast”.
The Leader of the Left party also called for the Federal Government to retract its invitation to Syrian transitional president Ahmed al‑Scharaa, who had last‑minute cancelled a planned trip to Germany on Monday, and instead issue a wanted notice against him. “Instead of rolling out the red carpet for the authorities al‑Sharaa, one should place him on a wanted list for the brutal crimes of his militias” she said to the RND. “This man should not be a guest of the state, because he bears the political responsibility for the massacres of his militias against Alawites, Druze and now the Kurds”.
According to Schwerdtner, 120,000 Kurds and Yazidis were displaced from Aleppo and surrounding areas in recent days. Now the militias are also hostile in northeastern Syria, where they sought to destroy Kurdish self‑rule. “Those who invite al‑Sharaa to Berlin are supporting his terror regime”.