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Photo from the article: An airplane flies over the prison near
Zurich's airport,
where people wait to be deported (Keystone)
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The cost of returning asylum-seekers to
their home countries climbed to more than CHF4 million ($4.5 million) in 2013,
almost CHF1 million more than in 2012 – despite the fact that fewer people were
repatriated.
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Two factors contributed to the increase,
according to the government: cantons with airports were reimbursed at a higher
level for special flights (CHF1,700 instead of CHF250), and the costs for
medical accompaniment by doctors during repatriation flights almost doubled, to
CHF2,200.
Medical accompaniment by doctors became an
issue in March 2010, when a Nigerian deportee died at Zurich airport after
being forcibly restrained. Although an autopsy found he suffered from an
undiagnosed heart condition, all deportation flights were temporarily halted.
