BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations on Monday (Aug 26) during a visit to Solingen, where a deadly mass stabbing linked to Islamic State has emboldened the far-right oppos
Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz lays a flower at a church, near the scene of a knife attack, in Solingen, Germany, Aug 26, 2024. BERLIN: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations on Monday during a visit to Solingen, where a"We will have to do everything we can to ensure that those who cannot and are not allowed to stay in Germany are repatriated and deported," Scholz told reporters in the western city, where he laid a flower at the scene of the crime.
The AfD seized on the attack in its election campaign, with Thuringia's leading candidate for the party, Bjoern Hoecke, pitching to voters the choice of"Hoecke or Solingen". Merz cited the possibility that the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany could benefit at the expense of Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats.The attack puts pressure on Scholz as his Social Democrats, alongside their Green and Free Democrat coalition partners, bruised from months of quarrelling, are trailing in the polls.
Again in June, Scholz said he would take a tougher stance on deportation after an Afghan man stabbed a police officer, who later died of his injuries, during an attack on a right-wing demonstration in the city of Mannheim."But that is no reason for us to sit back and relax," he added, saying the government was looking at legal and practical ways to boost the numbers.
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