Germany deports 806 Albanian asylum-seekers

10 March 2016, 5:55 pm

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The German Embassy in Tirana says that 806 Albanians were repatriated from Germany last week after their asylum requests were rejected.

An embassy statement says that the number of Albanian deportations from Germany this year is about 3,400, part of a total of 55,000 who asked for asylum in 2015.

Last year, Albanians were the fourth-biggest group of asylum-seekers in Germany after Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis, in search of better living standards and jobs.

Other people from western Balkan nations like Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia also have sought asylum in Germany, but Berlin considers them to be safe countries where individuals are unlikely to face the kind of persecution that would warrant asylum.

— AP