Merkel to face questions over migrant, security policies

Deadly attacks carried out by asylum seekers in Germany will not lead to a change in Germany’s refugee policy, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. The most deadly involved a July 22 shooting spree by an 18-year-old born and raised in Munich who opened fire at a shopping center in the city, gunning down nine before killing himself.

Germany will “stick to our principles” and “give shelter to those who deserve it”, said Merkel, who cut short her summer vacation to speak after a string of Islamist attacks in the country. More than 1 million asylum-seekers were registered in Germany in 2015. “We have already achieved very, very much in the last 11 months”, she noted.

She said that terrorists wanted Germany to “lose our view for what’s important to us”.

“They want to divide our unity, our cooperation, they want to harm our life”, she said. According to Daily Mail, in Nuremberg, women interviewed said they were now afraid for their safety and 83 percent of Germans see immigration as their nation’s biggest challenge.

The first real political test for Merkel will come in September, when her home state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania holds elections.

Merkel tried to calm the mood over the weekend by saying the security services will “do everything possible to protect the security and freedom of all people in Germany”.

But she said there would be no reversal in the policy of taking in migrants.

Last year Merkel claimed “we can do this”, in reference to Germany choosing to take in more refugee from war torn countries. Global treaties, however, forbid countries from returning migrants to places of danger, such a war-ravaged Syria, even if a migrant has been refused refugee status. Merkel’s policy on migrants will stay the same, and none of the recent terror attacks hasn’t hesitated this lady. “We need to check all of these routes and also live with the danger of terrorism”. “These acts happened in places where any of us could have been”. She is sticking to her insistence previous year that Germany “will manage” the challenges it faces. He had been informed two weeks earlier that he was to be deported in 30 days.

The youth had obsessively researched mass shootings, and authorities said the attack does not appear to be linked to Islamic extremists.

It was apparent in Munich at the weekend that many people feel insecure.

Three of them were carried out by asylum seekers.

But the misgivings have surfaced again after four attacks in the space of a week.

She is hugely dependent on Turkey and its increasingly authoritarian leader preventing further refugees crossing into Greece and the EU.