Overview
- Thirteen relatives left over the weekend via flights routed through Turkey, bringing the total departures to 17 of 20, according to the state justice ministry.
- Each traveller renounced refugee or subsidiary protection and received about €1,350 plus travel costs, which officials said was cheaper than detention or deportation.
- Authorities attribute roughly 160 offences to the family, including violent assaults, theft and fraud, following years of police and court action in Stuttgart.
- The operation was coordinated by the Justice and Migration Ministry’s Special Task Force for Dangerous Foreigners after extensive talks with the family.
- Three brothers remain in prison after June convictions over a Stuttgart knife attack and are slated to be returned to Syria after serving parts of their sentences, while Berlin pursues talks to enable formal deportations of some offenders.