Germany Enacts New Deal to Manage Afghan Migrant Influx
A group of 34 Afghan asylum seekers was sent back to Afghanistan Thursday after being deported from Germany.
The move follows a recent Afghan-German deal to help the country manage the massive influx of migrants.
Germany has struggled since allowing 890,000 migrants to enter last year, so they're deporting those who do not truly need asylum.
Meanwhile, German police say an Afghan refugee suspected of raping and killing a 19-year-old university student was also convicted of attempting to kill another woman in Greece.
The man, identified as Hussein K., has been in custody since October for the death of medical student Maria L.
German authorities discovered that K. was arrested in Greece in 2013 for the attempted murder of a woman on the Greek island of Corfu.
He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison but was later released on probation on the condition that he would regularly report to a local police station.
He failed to do so and German authorities issued a nationwide warrant for his arrest, but they did not alert other European countries.
He was not placed on Interpol or Schengen Information System watch lists either, The Associated Press reports.
German officials are trying to determine how K. managed to get into Germany despite his conviction.
"This is a very troublesome incident," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin. "We will certainly take this up with the Greek side."
