Chancellor Olaf Scholz vows to tackle exploitation of system while AfD co-leader demands five-year asylum moratorium
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits the site of Friday's attack that left three people dead and eight injured in Solingen, Germany . Photograph: Sascha Schuermann/Getty ImagesMr Scholz promised “swift” new rules on weapons as well as measures to counter exploitation of the asylum system during a visit to the western city of Solingen. Three days earlier its 650th anniversary party ended in chaos with a knife-wielding man stabbing revellers.
On Monday police said they had found traces of his DNA on a 15in knife, discovered in a bin near the scene of the attack, along with his bloody jacket containing a wallet with his ID and, in a drain, his mobile phone and a tablet.AfD appeal grows in some German cities as Björn Höcke calls for ‘180-degree shift’ in view of Nazi pastThe man came to Germany in 2022 and appears to have dodged a deportation order back to Bulgaria, until then responsible for his case under EU asylum rules.
He urged Germans to reject “Islamists who endanger the peaceful coexistence of Christians, Jews and Muslims”. Islamic State has taken credit for the attack and has released a video of someone it claims is the Solingen attacker, wearing a head covering and what appears to be a tea towel covering almost his entire face.
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