Germany is considering resuming deportations of criminals to Afghanistan, the interior minister said on Tuesday.

Germany stopped repatriating migrants to Afghanistan after the Taliban took power in 2021, because it does not deport people to countries where they are threatened by death.

But after an Afghan asylum seeker was accused of fatally stabbing a police officer in Mannheim last Friday, authorities are now reconsidering this policy.

"It is clear to me that people who pose a potential threat to Germany's security must be deported quickly," Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told reporters.,,

"I am also quite adamant that Germany's security interests clearly outweigh the interests of those affected."

"That is why we are doing everything possible to find ways to deport criminals and dangerous people to both Syria and Afghanistan," she added