On Monday 26 August, Germany’s Social Democrat Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, promised to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants in Germany and to tighten up firearms legislation, during a visit to the scene of the terrorist attack in Solingen on Friday 23 August that killed three people and seriously injured others.
The 26-year-old man, imprisoned on 25 August, is a Syrian asylum seeker who arrived in Germany in 2022 and is said to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State...