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Germany repatriates some 70 Albanian asylum seekers

Xinhua, August 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Some 70 Albanian citizens who went to Germany as asylum seekers were sent back to Albania on Wednesday.

Some of the citizens who arrived in Tirana on Wednesday were in Germany since Jan. 1, while women and children were among the repatriated people.

They said authorities didn't tell them that they were being taken back to Albania, according to Albanian daily news.

"They didn't tell us. They said they were going to change the house we were staying in," said some of the people.

Their repatriation has been made in the frame of the action undertaken by German institutions to accelerate procedures for the repatriation of Albanian asylum seekers.

The German embassy in Tirana announced on Tuesday that two charter planes will arrive in Tirana's Mother Teresa Airport on Wednesday and Thursday to bring back from Germany at least 195 Albanian asylum seekers.

Another plane with 125 people, who have agreed to return home voluntarily, will arrive on Thursday, the German embassy said on Tuesday. Endit