German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has backed deportations after an Afghan asylum seeker stabbed a police officer to death.
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![The refugees were allegedly deported via the Akcakale border crossing [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1182051321.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=JglqLj-r)
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