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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to tighten weapons laws and speed up the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers.

00:00 DW Report on demonstrations in response to last week's terror attack 

03:04 Interview with Till Steffen, a member of Parliament for the Green party, which is part of the coalition government.

10:31 DW's Chief Political Correspondent Nina Haase explains how the attack could affect upcoming German state elections. 

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DW Report on demonstrations in response to last week's terror attack



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0:00
Olaf Schulz paying his respects to the
0:03
victims of a mass stabbing in zolan the
0:06
German Chancellor branded the attack as
0:08
terrorism and vowed not to bow in the
0:11
fight against
0:13
extremism that's Terror this was
0:16
terrorism terrorism against us all that
0:20
threatens our lives and Community the
0:22
way we live that is also what those who
0:25
plan and carry out such attacks always
0:28
intend and that is something we will
0:30
never accept nor
0:35
tolerate over the weekend police
0:37
arrested the main suspect a 26-year-old
0:40
Syrian man the Islamic State terror
0:43
group has claimed
0:44
responsibility meanwhile officers
0:47
searched the Asylum Center where he is
0:49
reported to have lived according to
0:51
Media reports the alleged perpetrator
0:53
had an application for Asylum rejected
0:56
but he went on the run before he could
0:57
be deported back to Bulgaria the country
1:00
where he had first entered the European
1:03
Union far right groups have held
1:05
protests since the attacks and were met
1:08
by counter
1:09
demonstrations the incident has Turbo
1:11
Charge calls to tighten Asylum
1:13
deportation and security
1:17
rules this young man was not on a legal
1:22
basis in Germany concerning the German
1:24
ayum right and he was not allowed to get
1:27
asylum in Germany and I question mark
1:29
why
1:30
he was still in Germany um due to the
1:33
fact that he was obliged to go home and
1:36
in case that he would have been sent
1:38
home he would have not been able to do
1:41
this terror attack on Friday evening in
1:44
soing and on the
1:46
phov the German Chancellor promised to
1:48
get a grip on
1:51
deportations we will do everything we
1:53
can and must to ensure that those who
1:56
cannot and may not stay in Germany are
1:59
rep created and
2:03
deported Schult said he also wants to
2:05
review weapons laws and improve
2:07
cooperation with European Neighbors in
2:10
the capital nerves are on
2:12
edge it's shocking that something like
2:15
this can happen in
2:17
Germany I already feel safe because as
2:19
they say dirt always floats to the top
2:22
and of course you only ever hear about
2:24
these things and not about the things
2:26
that go on normally in a city like this
2:29
but of course it's a bit
2:33
scary the right- Wingers will profit
2:36
from this act they will exploited and
2:38
say look we have to get rid of all the
2:42
refugees I'm more afraid of that than of
2:46
refugees for Olaf Schultz The Fallout
2:48
may continue the attack is likely to
2:51
dominate in two State elections later
2:53
this week where his Social Democrat
2:55
Party is expected to suffer heavy
2:58
defeats and from all that political
3:00
Fallout let's bring in till Stefan he's
3:02
a member of parliament for the green
Interview with Till Steffen, a member of Parliament for the Green party, which is part of the coalition government.
3:05
party that is in Olaf Schulz coalition
3:06
government he joins us from Hamburg Mr
3:09
Stefan the suspect entered the European
3:12
Union for the first time in Bulgaria and
3:14
should have been deported there from
3:16
Germany long ago why is it not possible
3:18
for Germany to Simply Implement its own
3:23
laws we have all the rules we need but
3:27
in fact um they they didn't succeed in
3:31
proceeding them because um they tried to
3:34
meet him at home and then they should
3:36
have should have search farther for him
3:39
but they didn't actually um and of
3:42
course we need sufficient implementing
3:45
of our rules and that's necessary if we
3:47
want to have uh sufficient proceedings
3:50
uh in order to uh to send people to
3:54
those countries where they should where
3:56
they can apply for
3:57
Asylum now talking about deep deporting
4:00
uh uh people Germany generally does not
4:02
Deport people to Syria or Afghanistan
4:05
why is
4:08
that um it's basically just to the fact
4:11
that they are in danger because there's
4:14
a terrible war going on supported by
4:17
Putin and he's making a lot of pressure
4:21
um on uh the people in Syria and he's
4:23
also at the same time promoting the
4:26
rightwing party in Germany uh to do
4:29
something again Asylum Seekers so um we
4:32
have to see that there is also a a push
4:35
factor to Germany that people they they
4:37
try to um rescue their own lives that's
4:41
understandable I think and we can send
4:44
people to a country where they're in the
4:46
risk of of their lives now the
4:49
opposition cdu's party leader Fred MZ
4:52
now says after zingan enough is enough
4:55
he's offering the government corporation
4:57
but he demands a ban on Asylum Seeker
4:59
for
5:00
from Syria and Afghanistan as well as
5:02
tougher border patrols uh can the greens
5:04
agree to
5:07
that I think that could be a big mistake
5:09
because if you see the strategy of the
5:12
so-called Islamic State they want to
5:15
bring every Muslim as uh an enemy of the
5:21
general society and of course many
5:24
Muslims they feel quite at home in
5:26
Germany and the strategy is to th
5:29
threaten all people all non-muslim
5:31
people in Germany and if you have
5:34
reactions that go against any Muslim or
5:38
any person from Syria then the uh
5:41
terrorists from Islamic State they say
5:43
look you have to come to us uh because
5:46
they won't accept you whatever you do
5:48
you're an enemy to them and so we we are
5:52
your political home and come to our
5:54
organization and we would feed the
5:57
terrorism if we would react like that
5:59
and we should should rather react really
6:01
um uh specifically on those people who
6:04
are really dangerous well but how do you
6:07
specifically react to that how do you
6:09
specifically react to something uh that
6:12
like what happened in
6:15
zingan we know that uh that we need
6:19
rules and we have rules in order to send
6:22
people home who might not be in Germany
6:24
and that has to be enforced um that's of
6:27
course clear and the other thing is um
6:30
the rules for um wearing weapons in
6:33
public should be changed because it's
6:35
legal to wear a wife to to wear a knife
6:38
in Germany it's legal and if you have um
6:43
but in fact there's no real reason to
6:45
have a knife in public life and so we
6:48
discussing to have strict laws on knives
6:51
and so it's an opportunity less uh in
6:53
order to uh to commit such crimes do you
6:57
do you really think that uh changing the
6:59
rules on knife crimes uh will uh
7:03
prohibit such attacks I mean running
7:05
around with a large knife and killing
7:07
people is already illegal is it
7:10
not uh of course it's illegal running
7:13
around and killing people but it's legal
7:15
running around with a knife and if you
7:16
want to preempt such such a crime you
7:20
have to um you need to have competences
7:24
for police to control for example a
7:26
backpack if people come to a festival or
7:29
are at train station you need competen
7:32
for police to have some controls and if
7:33
someone has a knife at a festival where
7:37
there's no reason for that and you can
7:39
ban them from the festival that could be
7:41
an opportunity and it's also um an
7:43
improvement of security because we have
7:46
a lot of problems with uh crimes
7:48
committed with knives also in public
7:50
life not not only terrorist attacks just
7:53
just conflicts between young people they
7:55
escalate very quickly because young
7:57
people wear knives if you would B knives
8:00
in public that would be Improvement
8:02
anyway but of course it's just an an
8:05
farther
8:06
entrenchment uh at previous times the
8:09
terrorists they took um big cars in
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order to to uh send them to to uh
8:16
festivals like that and these days we
8:19
have uh barriers uh in front of those
8:21
festivals so they seek other if we make
8:25
the make the space uh even closer for
8:29
crimes it's just another step but of
8:31
course we need real preemption and we
8:34
need to need to have work with Muslims
8:37
who are end danger to sympathize with uh
8:40
Islamic State we know some really
8:43
successful measures and we have to
8:45
enforce them now do you think uh that
8:48
you we have there are three state
8:50
elections coming up next month and the
8:52
anti-immigration parties both of them
8:54
are predicted to win big in all three
8:56
states do you think that voters will
8:58
turn away from them uh if you just U
9:03
make knife laws
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stricter I I think it's very important
9:09
to have the whole picture that you need
9:12
you need the preemptive work with young
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Muslims that's very very important too
9:16
but of course those parties they're
9:19
trying to make a cheap gain because they
9:22
are playing the we and they game the
9:25
Islamic State plays himself they are
9:27
playing it too and of of course it works
9:30
out even better if you don't have big
9:34
Muslim Muslim uh communities because if
9:37
you have Muslims as friends as
9:39
colleagues or those things like that the
9:41
we and they thing they wouldn't work out
9:44
but if you have um uh parts of the
9:47
country where you only have a few
9:49
immigrants then it works even better to
9:52
make people afraid of M immigrants and
9:55
of Muslims and I think that could be a
9:57
way for them to get success but at the
10:00
same time there are many people who are
10:03
fed up with this strategy they don't
10:05
want to have our country divided into
10:07
enemies they want to have our country
10:10
living uh together in in um with
10:13
different people with different
10:14
religions and they know that it's a
10:16
better way to live in peace if you don't
10:19
Foster the the hate of against each
10:21
other tell St there the co-gn green
10:24
party member of the German Parliament
10:26
thank you very much
10:29
thank
DW's Chief Political Correspondent Nina Haase explains how the attack could affect upcoming German state elections.
10:31
you let's bring in our chief political
10:33
correspondent Nina haza there are two
10:35
State elections this weekend what impact
10:38
could the attack in zingan have on the
10:41
outcome well it's already having an
10:44
impact on the debate uh the islamist
10:46
threat is back on the agenda and the
10:48
reactions have been somewhat predictable
10:50
from the various parties there are calls
10:52
for stricter Asylum policies stricter
10:54
deportation rules all of that is of
10:56
course water on the Mills of the far
10:58
right uh who been running their campaign
11:00
in these two states in Saxony and thin
11:02
on anti-immigration policies and now the
11:05
lead candidate in one of those states
11:07
can who can officially be labeled a
11:09
fascist Bean hooker um his team are now
11:12
campaigning on um you've got the choice
11:15
hooker or zing and so they're using this
11:17
incident and his party looks said to be
11:20
the winner of the elections in both
11:21
States they're currently polling at some
11:23
30% whereas the traditional parties and
11:26
especially the parties that are ruling
11:27
here at Berlin they'll have a hard time
11:30
even making it into the regional
11:31
parliaments at all but will they have to
11:34
build some sort of coalitions to to
11:36
actually get in
11:40
power well indeed in those two states a
11:43
lot of votes are likely going to go to
11:45
populist parties so the far right afd
11:48
that I've already mentioned and the BSW
11:50
that's a very new party with a
11:52
charismatic leader who left the left
11:54
party in order to start her own and
11:57
while both of these parties afd and Bs W
11:59
have in common is that they can be
12:01
labeled anti-stem Russia friendly or
12:04
pro- Russia as well as very tough on
12:06
immigration and while all traditional
12:08
democratic parties have ruled out
12:10
collaborating with the afd because of
12:13
their partially right-wing extremist
12:15
positions there will likely be no way
12:17
around taking BSW into consideration
12:20
when trying to form a government in
12:21
those regions and that will of course
12:23
give them a boost in terms of national
12:25
debates they'll have an impact um when
12:28
it comes to the debate around Germany
12:29
support of Ukraine for example where
12:31
they're very much against tell us more
12:34
about the weekend protests against the
12:36
far
12:38
ride well in some parts of the country
12:41
Germany is becoming as polarized as
12:44
we've seen it happen in other Western
12:46
countries such as the UK and the us
12:48
there both sides have built strong
12:50
networks over the last few years so
12:52
after zingan happened there were farride
12:55
protests but immediately you also saw a
12:57
lot of counter protests so mobilization
13:00
happens very quickly these days on all
13:02
sides and tell me also how Germany plans
13:05
to actually tighten Asylum policy being
13:08
really the Crux of all of
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this well ol have CHS announced last
13:13
year already that Germany will put more
13:15
effort into deporting all those who
13:17
don't have permission to stay in Germany
13:19
the numbers are quite staggering some
13:22
200,000 people here in Germany at the
13:24
moment who don't have a legal bases um
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so just how that is supposed to happen
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there are many different ideas ranging
13:32
from reviewing the rules under which
13:34
Germany collaborates with other EU
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countries in terms of migration as well
13:38
as discussing with third countries how
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to deport people back to Syria and
13:42
Afghanistan that is legally of course
13:45
very very difficult because there are no
13:47
diplomatic relations with those
13:49
countries and of course equipping the
13:51
authorities better and that debate has
13:53
been going on for a while but it is of
13:55
course bang on the agenda again now
13:57
after zing DWS nahaz there



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@comedymental5262
1 hour ago
7:35 this guy is nuts. Ban knifes in public? How you will enforce that? You could not even find this guy. He just gave himself up.
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@Sam-nb8ev
43 minutes ago
First of all Germany should shed its guilt ridden psyche. After this,  the immigration policies will be rational.
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@OFIR580
1 hour ago
Can you imagine a stranger entering your home for shelter, refuse to leave when told and then murdering your friends and family? As per the green the solution for this would be to talke to the strangers friends and family to not continue murdering you…
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@cafemm
49 minutes ago
So the state didnt bother to follow its own laws and they will solve it with more laws that they wont follow either
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@Nouharel
1 hour ago
Well I live near Frankfurt Main.
I was on vacation last year in Warsaw. 
Walking arround at night as a woman near a central train station without fear was culture shock.
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@alpcan3264
44 minutes ago
This country opened its arms to this Lunatic and look what he did. 
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@TheOneAndOnlycE
1 hour ago
Answer: they don’t
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@urbansenicar81
27 minutes ago
Migration and asylum are two completely separate subjects.
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@Blastsniper
1 hour ago
Let's ban all cutlery, and heavy sticks.
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@forlua9211
16 minutes ago (edited)
Basically, he said "the problem is about the weapons not the people".
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@PrideinLondon-lp1vp
31 minutes ago
Asylum seekers from Syria, application rejected?
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@peshangbakr2442
33 minutes ago
That's funny , so if someone wants to kill people with a knife then find out that it's illegal to carry a knife they won't do it??
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@Samayil_2024
37 minutes ago
When and if Russia comes, you will pray dearly for lax borders. 
One who did not become of his country won't become yours...
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@exodus888
1 hour ago
imported terrorism?
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@CurtusVanPebbles
7 minutes ago
The Greens: Ban knives and nuclear power. Don't change immigration or asylum rules. Call anyone that disagrees "far-right."
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@markbecker71
42 minutes ago
You can't vote your way out of this..if they one of yours ,you do 2 of theirs ..step up good men.
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@xander6522
28 minutes ago (edited)
When I visit Germany, I want to experience German culture and interact with the local native Germans. Why is it only European countries have this multiculturalism forced onto us?! Japan and South Korea are not exactly pro-immigration, but nobody has a problem with them when they push back against it.
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@user-mp2fb9ku5o
1 hour ago
with words
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@urbansenicar81
25 minutes ago
"It's shocking that something like this can happen  in Germany."
:)
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@kristijanradovac43
34 minutes ago
If you aren’t prepared to answer the aggressors with same extreme measures, you lose. Germany lost, years ago…
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@salmineo4132
26 minutes ago
Im sorry but the green party will lose on this out of touch response
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@GF-pf6xh
1 hour ago
Europe is fubar
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@munksoe
38 minutes ago
wir schaffen das
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@JanSmets-bg9ie
1 hour ago
They don't.
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@thomasphilip2892
9 minutes ago
Never knew DW was so "islamophobic"...
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@brunothuin8586
53 minutes ago
Europeans lost their teeth. To WWI probably.
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@multidimensional_holographer
35 minutes ago
maybe they should find that charismatic dude who conducted the 'seminar'
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@SchulzEvgen
27 minutes ago
I don’t understand one thing. Do people really fell safe near group of young Syrians? I don’t. We are from different wolds and I can’t imagine what they are up to. Some people just crave diversity, that’s unnatural.
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@rogeriocoelho8674
6 minutes ago
It's urgent to stop and reverse that
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@JanisOteps
45 seconds ago
Greens have completely lost their minds. They will ruin Germany. I live here and I’m considering leaving due to many issues that Greens and other leftists have caused here.
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@mradventurer8104
57 minutes ago
Allowing one million people from a war torn area with a totally different culture with a religion which can't blend easily (if only because interfaith marriage for the women is not allowed)? Of course that won't go without problems. But this guy blames Putin for everything it seems 4:44. Of course they can change knife laws but that is just a small part of the problems at hand.
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@mgordon1713
1 hour ago
German police don't f around, I like it.
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@louistan7560
1 minute ago
Talk is easy. Doing things quickly without thinking through the process and the potential consequences and how to control them will be disastrous. Political expediency kills.
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@SmellyPajeet
1 hour ago
🇩🇪🇩🇪
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@wanderer2246
1 hour ago
This member of german parliament is talking the right things about the need to identify dangerous people instead of pointing fingers on everyone, BUT, he is talking complete nonsense about how to achieve that. The solution is to have a special investigator office, speak to people more and analyze information. But prohibiting to wear a knife? Seriously? In some situations, like a car accidents, you may need a knife. And so after that, all the policemen will try to guess who has the knife?
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@user-nj7qo4rm6y
1 hour ago
Tightening asylum policy is futile. Terrorists/criminals can exploit the loose borders anyway. Tightening asylum and making it difficult to access the job market and integration would open up further opportunities for terrorists to groom them
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@kanespanchacharam7417
30 minutes ago
Good  for  Germany  more  old man  no good
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