Bündnis gegen Abschiebungen - Stop deportations - Aktuelles Termine
Charter deportations are flights where a whole plane is rented for the purpose of deporting as many people as possible simultaneously. Since the pandemic, Germany is increasingly using charter flights for deportations. Since 2021, around 50% of all deportations from Germany happen on charter flights. The other half of deportations happen on regular passenger flights.
Every flight is usually preceeded by midnight deportation raids throughout Germany, mostly in the region from where the flight is organised, but also from other parts of Germany. Most of these police raids happen the night before the flight, but can also happen weeks before and people are taken to a deportation prison. Usually police takes people to the airport around 5 hours before the planned departure of a charter deportation.
Most charter deportations are organised by Federal Police (BPOL) under orders from Germany's Ministery of Interior. BPOL receives a list of potential people to be be deported from the Ausländerbehörde (Migration Office). The Zentrum zur Unterstützung der Rückkehr (ZUR) coordinates between different German states (Länder). A few weeks before the planned flight, BPOL requests a travel agency to book a charter plane. Köln-based Air Partner GmbH has been contracted to book deportation charters. This travel agen
Bündnis gegen Abschiebungen - Stop deportations - Aktuelles Termine