Two attacks in Bavaria – an axe attack last week near Würzburg and a suicide bombing on Sunday in Ansbach – were carried out by a refugee and failed asylum seeker respectively.
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Four brutal assaults in Germany’s south, three of which were carried out by asylum seekers, have rattled Germans and revived a backlash against Merkel’s decision a year ago to open the borders to those fleeing war and persecution.
On the same day, another alleged Syrian refugee attacked several people with a long knife in a town near Stuttgart, killing one person and injuring two others.
Then nine people were killed on Friday when 18-year-old Ali Sonboly went on the rampage at a shopping centre in Munich.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is standing firm on Germany’s refugee policy following the country’s recent terror attacks.
“The terrorists want us to loose our oversight of the things we deem important and break our unity and sense of community”.
“We’ll manage it and we’ve already managed a lot in the last 11 months”, she told reporters in Berlin.
Asked by a journalist if terrorists entering Europe is the price we pay for our humanity, Merkel replied: “We know since at least the Paris attacks that Isis also use refugee routes to smuggle terrorist through”.
It has sparked demands for Mrs Merkel to tear up her controversial stance of welcoming outsiders in need which brought almost 1.1 million migrants to Germany previous year.
At the same time, she said Germany must improve the process for repatriation of migrants whose asylum applications had been rejected.
It was her controversial declaration that Germany, in her opinion, was able to cope with the huge influx of refugees that came to the country that summer – and the start of her so called “welcome policy”.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference in Berlin, Germany, July 28, 2016.
Munich prosecutors and the Bavarian state criminal police office said in a joint statement Thursday they were still evaluating which parts of the document were fiction and which were based on reality.
Referring to the attacks that have taken place in France, Belgium, Turkey, the United States and elsewhere, she said taboos of civilisation had been broken, and they were meant to spread fear and hatred between cultures and between religions.
“We firmly reject this”, she said. The man who blew himself up and injured a dozen of people after bein…
That came after PM Theresa May issued a thinly-veiled dig at Germany for not stopping the attacks.
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That attack was not jihadist-related. While Merkel has been criticized for the amount of refugees that Germany has taken in, most western countries, including Germany, have taken in a very small percentage of asylum seekers that exist, with many more seeking shelter in poor countries such as Turkey and Lebanon.
