“That’s enough!” With this message in high tones, the head of the official opposition of the Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, addressed the chancellor Olaf Solts https://www.skai.gr/tags/olaf-solts and his government, accusing them of a “naive immigration policy” against the backdrop of the Islamist terrorist attack in Solingen that left three dead.

With his post yesterday, Sunday, on his website and with a related email to his supporters, Friedrich Merz yesterday set out his proposals, absolute and strict: He asks, in addition to mass deportations to Syria and Afghanistan, to completely stop accepting asylum requests from them the countries, but without proceeding to more specific considerations for their legal and practical implementation.

However, Chancellor Olaf Solz from Solingen, where he is today to commemorate the victims of Friday’s terrorist attack, expressed his intention to further speed up deportations and, if necessary, create a new legal framework. This is an intention that has been announced for months, both by him and by Secretary of the Interior Nancy Feser. As the chancellor said, “consistency” was needed in the enforcement of decisions taken on deportations and deportations under the “Dublin” framework to first host countries should go ahead.

At the same time, he announced new and stricter measures for gun ownership in Germany, specifically for the use of knives. As for the aftermath of the attack in Solingen, he said that this “terrorist act” was aimed at “all of us” and “our way of life”.

On Tuesday Solz-Mertz meeting

In the meantime, according to information from the Handelsblatt newspaper, citing sources from within the Christian Democrats, tomorrow, Tuesday, Olaf Scholz will meet with Friedrich Mertz at the chancellery in Berlin. This is a long-planned meeting, because as the same sources say, Friedrich Mertz “needed to be informed about certain issues”. After the latest developments in Solingen, immigration management is expected to be in the spotlight.

Speaking on public broadcaster ARD, the head of the Christian Democrats, who are leading in the polls, also called for permanent border controls and consistent rejections of asylum applications under European asylum rules, as the country of first reception is responsible for examining asylum applications. . In the case of the alleged perpetrator, who has already been remanded in custody, the first country of entry was Bulgaria, but he was not deported there when he should have been in 2023, because he managed to escape from the German authorities.

The Far Right “benefits” from Solingen

At the same time, the tones are rising in the field of the Far Right, which is galloping with percentages of 30% to 34% in eastern Germany, where elections are held in the coming weeks, on September 1st in Saxony and Thuringia and on September 22nd in Brandenburg. However, the AfD is in a hurry according to many analysts, to use the terrorist attack in Solingen as a tool for electoral gains.

Already the co-chair of the Alternative for Germany party, Alice Weidel, speaking to ZDF, said that she is asking for “a moratorium” here and now, specifically “to stop for at least five years the acceptance and naturalization of immigrants. In addition, the borders should be closed and groups of people with a higher rate of crime, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, should be deported.”

Through the X platform, he states that only the Alternative for Germany can provide solutions for immigration, deportations and security. She also throws her arrows at the Christian Democrats, saying that they are not the main opponent of the coalition government, because many problems started under their own leadership, and specifically from 2015 under Merkel.