German Chancellor Promises More Deportations After Solingen Knife Attack

Published on August 26, 2024

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Monday to increase deportations and strengthen knife laws as he visited the scene of a mass stabbing in Germany. Scholz was paying his respects in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, after the Aug. 23 attack, allegedly carried out by a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria. Three people were killed, and eight were wounded. Scholz, speaking after he joined regional officials in laying a white flower at a makeshift memorial in the west German city, said he was “furious and angry.” “We must do everything to ensure that such things never happen in our country, if possible,” Scholz said of the attack. He said that would include toughening knife laws in particular and that “this should and will happen very quickly,”...

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