{"id":235060,"date":"2016-07-28T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235060"},"modified":"2016-07-28T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:45:26","slug":"merkel-rules-out-migrant-policy-reversal-after-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/merkel-rules-out-migrant-policy-reversal-after-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel rules out migrant policy reversal after attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
But she did propose new measures to improve security.<\/p>\n
These include information sharing, deciphering web chatter and tackling arms sales on the internet.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Both men had claimed allegiance to so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n
The deadliest recent attack – in Munich on 22 July which left nine dead – was carried out by a German teenager of Iranian extraction but was not jihadist-related.<\/p>\n