Kosovo family face deportation from Austria

A decision to deport an Albanian family from Kosovo, currently residing in Austria, has sparked controversy.

Izvor: Tanjug

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A decision to deport an Albanian family from Kosovo, currently residing in Austria, has sparked controversy. The Zogaj family has been living in Austria for the past five years. They sought asylum but once their motion was denied, the immigration police deported them to Kosovo last week. Kosovo family face deportation from Austria However, Nurija Zogaj has been allowed to stay in Austria as her daughter Arigona went missing before immigration officers knocked on their front door last week. Before disappearing, the fifteen-year-old girl wrote a letter to her mother that was later found in the mailbox. The letter then appeared in public. The girl says “she won’t let the police take her alive should her family get deported from Austria.” Arigona Zagaj went on to write how she could not imagine her life in Kosovo, as she didn’t even know her home, adding that her parents "neither had a house in Kosovo nor jobs there." She said she "constantly used tranquilizers, and could not sleep, let alone eat." The girl wrote that she wanted to finish school in Austria and live there for the rest of her life. Once the letter appeared in the media, authorities decided to temporarily shelve the deportation decision, and president of the province of Upper Austria, Jozeph Piringer, said he was shocked at the conduct of the immigration police in the case of the Zogaj family. The Green Party of Upper Austria said it would call for the annulment of the decision to deport the Zogaj family before the Constitutional Court. The Frankenbourg municipality in Austria has already decided to assist the Albanian family in restoring their house in Kosovo if the higher court upholds the deportation decision.

Kosovo family face deportation from Austria

However, Nurija Zogaj has been allowed to stay in Austria as her daughter Arigona went missing before immigration officers knocked on their front door last week.

Before disappearing, the fifteen-year-old girl wrote a letter to her mother that was later found in the mailbox. The letter then appeared in public.

The girl says “she won’t let the police take her alive should her family get deported from Austria.”

Arigona Zagaj went on to write how she could not imagine her life in Kosovo, as she didn’t even know her home, adding that her parents "neither had a house in Kosovo nor jobs there."

She said she "constantly used tranquilizers, and could not sleep, let alone eat." The girl wrote that she wanted to finish school in Austria and live there for the rest of her life.

Once the letter appeared in the media, authorities decided to temporarily shelve the deportation decision, and president of the province of Upper Austria, Jozeph Piringer, said he was shocked at the conduct of the immigration police in the case of the Zogaj family.

The Green Party of Upper Austria said it would call for the annulment of the decision to deport the Zogaj family before the Constitutional Court.

The Frankenbourg municipality in Austria has already decided to assist the Albanian family in restoring their house in Kosovo if the higher court upholds the deportation decision.

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