The suspect had entered Germany in November 2022 -- apparently via the EU member country Bulgaria. Two months ago, he had stated that he planned to return to his home country of Afghanistan ...

Bulgaria still needs the approval of the EU's finance ministers, who are expected to give their full backing in July, before it formally adopts the euro.

An Afghan man suspected of carrying out a knife attack in Aschaffenburg, southern Germany, which claimed the lives of two individuals and injured two others, had been slated for deportation to ...

Aschaffenburg Mayor Jürgen Herzing said he was "shaken up" after a deadly stabbing in his city and urged calm as the attack ramps up Germany's ... The suspect had arrived in Germany via Bulgaria.

A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested following a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday in which two people were killed, including a toddler ...

The most recent case was in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, in which police arrested an Afghan man after a knife attack on a kindergarten group that left a 2-year-old boy and an adult male dead.

The Aschaffenburg attack followed knife attacks in Mannheim and in Solingen last year in which the suspects were ... also a rejected asylum-seeker who was supposed to have been sent to Bulgaria, ...

Germany is working intensively to deport more criminals to Afghanistan, said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in Berlin on Thursday, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for a deadly ...

What happened in Aschaffenburg? The assailant seemed to come out of nowhere on Wednesday, January 22. ... According to EU rules, he could have been sent back to Bulgaria.