Around 6,000 Refugee Children Lost in Germany!
Local Editor
Thousands of unaccompanied children and teenagers reportedly disappeared in Germany over the past year amid concerns that they might have fallen into the hands of criminals and human smugglers.
The German news organization Funke Mediengruppe reported on Monday that 5,835 refugee minors from countries in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia went missing in the Western European country in 2015, of whom 555 are under the age of 14.
The majority of the missing and unaccompanied minors were from Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Morocco and Algeria.
Meanwhile, officials in Berlin have no indications of their whereabouts.
However, German Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth confirmed media reports that the government recently informed parliament about the disappearance of nearly 6,000 refugee children.
Dimroth added that the actual number of the missing children could be even slightly higher than the current statistics. He, however, could not give reasons for their disappearance.
In this regard, Berlin has come under fire by politicians of the Green Party for not taking serious actions to address the problem.
Nevertheless, German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs spokeswoman Verena Herb said the government is very sensitive about the problem, and has recently taken new legal and practical measures to address it.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
Comments
- Related News
