Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks

[uawchild]

Source: BBC

Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
She said the attackers "wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly reject this".

But she did propose new measures to improve security.
These include information sharing, deciphering web chatter and tackling arms sales on the internet.

Two recent attacks in Bavaria were both by asylum seekers. A suicide bomb attack in Ansbach on Sunday that injured 15 people was carried out by a Syrian who had been denied asylum but given temporary leave to stay.

An axe and knife attack on a train in Wuerzburg on 18 July that wounded five people was carried out by an asylum seeker from Afghanistan.
Both men had claimed allegiance to so-called Islamic State.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36912141

[modem77]

1. So they are they including axes and knives in the internet arms sales tracking?

[christx30]

2. This is really sad.

But she did propose new measures to improve security.
These include information sharing, deciphering web chatter and tackling arms sales on the Internet.

You mean you were't doing this just as a matter of course? If you're not going to put any resources into even attemp to protect your people, what fat ducking good are you!? I'm not talking about recreating the Stasi. I'm talking about basic protections for your people to know who the bad guys are and what they are talking about.

[romanic]

3. Merkel is such a clueless idiot!

She needs to go. Before she does she should apologize to all of the victims, the women sexually assaulted in particular.

[Scorpionflyx]

4. I agree.

She should apologize to all the women of sexual assault .

[smirkymonkey]

9. She really is an effing moron and completely tone deaf to the concerns of her people.

If there is a resurgence of the extreme right in Germany, it is going to be on her shoulders. Idiot.

[pampango]

5. Of course not. 99% of refugees are good people and are not to blame

for the crimes of a few. The GOP blames all 'illegal immigrants' for the crimes of a few. Liberals do not do that with refugees.

[ansible]

6. Europeans in general seem to be incredibly naive of the dangers of uncontrolled immigration

They're going to learn the hard way.

[Scorpionflyx]

8. Just brilliant.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Lovely sentiment, but very naive.

Well, not my circus, not my monkeys as they say in Poland.

[Quantess]

7. Welcome, Right Wing Europe!!! She might as well have also said.

Angela Merkel's political future is cooked. She is obviously out-of-touch with regular germans who live in the suburbs.

Same goes for Sweden's dumb-assed, heads-buried-in-sand, oblivious, politicians who insist everything is going to be great with all these new, (mostly muslim) middle-eastern and north-african immigrants. Those swedish politicians live in their own bubbles, safely oblivious to the communal transit buses and commuter trains that their voters have to rely on, safely in their own pure-swedish, wealthy neighborhoods. That dumb-assed Miljöparti will, I hope, get voted out to oblivion. If Sweden's nationalist party Sverige Demokraterna wins, it was well deserved, due to dumbassery on the part of sweden's established government!

[JackRiddler]

11. Almost every comment on this thread is disgracefully ignorant of Germany

and the European and refugee situations generally. Also of the details of what's actually been going on in Germany lately (and the construction out of often unrelated attacks of a false general narrative). This is basically a proxy thread for Americans to blow off their own bigotry about migration in a politically correct fashion by directing it at "Merkel." Where to even begin?!