Austria offers a “bonus” of one thousand euros to Syrians who want to return to their country after the fall of Al Assad

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MADRID Dec. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Austria has offered this Friday a “return bonus” of one thousand euros to all Syrian citizens present in the country who want to return to their homes after the fall of Bashar al Assad’s regime due to the offensive of jihadists and rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS).

“Austria will support Syrians who want to return to their country of origin with a return bonus of one thousand euros,” said the Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer, through a message published on his account on the social network X.

Thus, he defended that Syria “now needs its citizens to rebuild” and stressed that “asylum procedures for Syrian citizens in Austria will continue to be suspended.”

Nehammer’s announcement comes just two days after Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner presented to the National Council, the lower house of parliament, an “orderly program of return and deportation” of Syrian citizens. “There won’t be immediate mass deportations as some imagined, but we won’t just ‘drink tea and wait’ either,” he said.

In addition to Austria, several European countries have announced in recent days their decision to suspend the processing of asylum requests by Syrians in light of the latest events in the country, where an offensive by rebels and jihadists allowed these groups to take over Damascus and forcing the flight of Al Assad, in power since 2000, when he succeeded his father, Hafez al Assad, president since 1971.