Germany's Scholz vows tougher asylum rules after suspected Islamist attack
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Lots of promises have been made about controlling immigration in recent years. Let’s see if this time he actually follows through. | Chancellor Olaf Scholz
…Social Democrat, Angela Merkel’s Number 2, then slid into her place when she retired. He was a Marxist in his youth, but charmingly claims to have outgrown it after making “almost all possible mistakes at some point"… | vowed to step up deportations and bring down irregular migration on Monday during a visit to the city of Solingen, where three people were killed in a mass stabbing over the weekend.
"This was terrorism, terrorism against us all," Scholz told reporters in the western city after laying a flower at the site of the attack in memory of the victims.
The attack, which investigators believe was carried out by a suspected Islamic State member from Syria, has fueled political tensions over asylum and deportation rules as well as violent crime ahead of three state elections next month.
Posted by: Frank G 2024-08-26 |