Germany's Seehofer told to quit after 'birthday' deportee's suicide

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s interior minister came under pressure to resign on Wednesday after one of 69 Afghans deported last week as part of a tougher line on migration was reported to have committed suicide on his return home.

The man was sent back as the minister, Horst Seehofer, fought a campaign within Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition to press for tighter restrictions on migrants.

Seehofer’s “Migration Masterplan”, which he launched on Tuesday and which would toughen border and immigration controls, is at odds with the open-doors policy Merkel announced at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis.

After Seehofer claimed credit for an increase in the pace of deportations of rejected asylum-seekers, exulting that 69 Afghans had left on his 69th birthday, an interior ministry official on Wednesday announced the suicide of one of them.

After Seehofer claimed credit for an increase in the pace of deportations of rejected asylum-seekers, exulting that 69 Afghans had left on his 69th birthday, an interior ministry official on Wednesday announced the suicide of one of them. - Read More

Germany's Seehofer told to quit after 'birthday' deportee's suicide