They were supposed to come to Germany after the Taliban took power - and are now dead. The federal government knows of dozens of former local workers and their relatives who died before they left. In addition to natural deaths and accidents, some also died violently.
For the first time, the federal government has to admit that dozens of people who were supposed to be evacuated from Afghanistan have died. Since the Taliban took power, 32 former local staff, persons who were particularly at risk for other reasons, or family members have died while they were waiting to be admitted by Germany. This emerges from the response of the federal government to a request from the left-wing member of the Bundestag Clara Bünger, which is available to "Spiegel".
In its response, the federal government lists the causes of the Afghans' deaths in detail. Accordingly, 15 people died of natural causes or in an accident. Nine were violently killed: a local worker died in an IS attack on a mosque, a family member of a particularly vulnerable person died in an attack in front of a passport authority. A relative of a local worker was killed because he was once a member of the Afghan armed forces. The cause of death is unclear for seven people, and one local employee committed suicide. According to the federal government, none of the deaths had a connection to the activity for the Germans.
Left MP Clara Bünger calls the balance sheet a "disaster". The old government failed miserably to get people at risk out of Afghanistan in time, she said, according to the "Spiegel". "And the new government has not even managed to bring at least those to safety who have been accepted."
