Story – The Social Democratic chancellor visited the beleaguered city on Monday, six days before twin elections in East Germany.
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“ will come ? » : A question written in red on a sign (“Why?”) emerges from a sea of flowers laid out on Fronhof Square, scene of tragedy in Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW). ” Why should they die? ? “, asks a resident interviewed by regional television WDR as he waits behind a red and white ribbon. “ We have questions and it’s time for answers “, Sixty-year-old, forty-eight hours after a knife attack on a 26-year-old Syrian man suspected of links to the Islamic State (IS) organization.
The German press has rattled off a list of recent Islamist attacks on German soil: Mannheim, Duisburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Würzburg and now Solingen. With a covered face, suit and black tie, Olaf Scholz places a white rose in this improvisational monument. The…
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