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Merkel DEFENDS open-door asylum policy despite deadly attacks by refugees
ANGELA Merkel has claimed she
“did the right thing” by allowing hundreds of thousands of refugees enter
Germany last year. By Fraser Moore, 7/30/16
This is despite
three horrific attacks in the country having been committed by asylum seekers
this month alone. The German
chancellor declared this week she “stands by” the decision to take in thousands
since last summer. She said: “I stand
by the political decisions we’ve made. “As chancellor, I
am responsible for, by far, most decisions. “I always have to
weigh up if a decision meets our values — which does not mean that there are no
risks.”
But the comments
come despite a host of high-profile attacks in Germany this month – with the
majority perpetrated by migrants.
A teenage asylum
seeker injured 19 people when he went on a rampage with an axe on a train on July 18. A week
later, a Syrian asylum seeker allegedly hacked a pregnant woman to death with a
machete in the town of Reutlingen, near Stuttgart. And the same day, a failed
Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach,
injuring 15 people.
Mrs Merkel said
taking in the vast number of migrants “would not be easy” but Germany would
manage. She said: “I said back then, and I’ll say it again, Germany is a strong
country. “I called it a task for the whole nation. But just as we’ve managed so
much already, we’ll manage this.”
The 62-year-old
added: “The basic principle that Germany stands by its humanitarian
responsibility is the right thing.” “I believe that if
we had refused to fulfil our humanitarian responsibility, there would have been
just as many – or maybe very different — very bad consequences for us.”
Her comments come
as German activists plan today to stage a “huge” protest against the
chancellor’s open-door policy. Thousands are
expected to gather in Berlin using the hashtag #MerkelMussWeg – meaning Merkel must go – where they will be
addressed by right-wing politicians.
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