Friedrich Merz vows to seal Germany’s borders after Bavaria knife attack

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Fredesrich Merge, the front-of-the-folded knife, is planning to submit a migration bill to impose “semi-permanent” border control after a deadly knife attack in the country.

The leader of the Christian Democratic Union, which is predicted to win the general election on February 26, has also promised to ban the entry of asylum seekers and increase the deportation. On Friday, he said his party was planning to vote in Parliament next week.

The conservative leader says the existing EU migration rules were “void”, he also said: “Germany must use its rights to the indigenous national law.”

The planned arrangements were two years old on Wednesday and an adult Afghan asylum candidate responded to the sound of the growing people after the killing of Aschafenberg in Bavarian city. The disappointment of Berlin’s inability to take a more rigorous attitude towards irregular immigration has increased support for the right-right option for Germany (AFD).

The attack on a 5 km southeast of Frankfurt is a month later a doctor in Saudi Arabia comes after a plow in a Christmas market in East City MagdoburgKill six and injured hundreds. In August, a Syrian national western city was severely stabbed to Solinzen. Terrorism group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.

AFD occupied the attacks to justify his call Mass deportation Immigrants. Surveyors said the party had predicted second place with about 20 percent of the vote. Wednesday, AFD leader Allis Weadale He published a letter requesting Merge to cooperate in Parliament on migration.

Former CDU Chancellor Angela was trying to draw a line under the era of Angela Merkel, who was originally divided by 5 MN to enter Germany in 25, UE June, a political scientist said.

“But it is difficult to see how a party can benefit from the current immigration debate except AFD,” said June.

Chancellor Olaf Sholz, whose social Democratic Party ranked third in the vote, wanted to rebuild the blame for the latest attack on Bavaria’s conservative president Marcus Cyder. Cider CDU is campaigning with the Bavarian Sister Party, Christian Social Union leader and Merge.

The suspected person who was arrested in Wednesday’s attack was a 20 -year -old Afghan citizen whom he had refused in 2021 and should be returned to Bulgaria, where he entered the EU. He knew the problems of mental illness and told the authorities that he would voluntarily leave Germany a month ago, according to the Bavarian authorities.

After the Soleenzen attack, Sholz’s alliance was launched Temporary control Along with all its land borders, it was a step that said “compatible with European law”.

However, Sholz has been criticized for failing to solve the problem. Read the first page of the largest tabloid build in Germany on Friday, “Bah-Bha Chancellor”.

“Now the blame is going on,” Henning Myer says, a public policy professor at Tibjin University. “People properly feel that the government is not in control, but this is a systematic administrative problem.”

Myer added: “The attackers were all familiar and were identified as some possible threats. The authorities have problems with information flow. “

Multiple agencies were alert about Magdeburg attacker, a refugee who expressed support for AFD and knew the mental illness.

The Merge’s party supported the liberal, AFD and Leftuzer Sahra Wagencnett and could protect the parliamentary majority for his immigration proposals without the support of SPD and Green. If the two coalition parties decide to stop or refuse these steps, they may face a response.

Green MP Constantin von Nottz warned that “the proposals are not compatible with the Constitution or European law.. Merge Donald is following Trump’s move”.

If the attacks continued, Merz was also risky to lose support, Professor Myer said.

“Merge wants to semi-permanent the border control, but the danger is that he promotes extra and does not distribute and there is another attack,” he said. “Illegal immigrants do not live in border crossings and Germany has a large green border.”