Germany's Scholz vows tougher asylum rules after suspected Islamist attack

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00:00Bouquets piled high throughout Sunday as residents of Selingen paid their respects to the victims

00:05of Friday night's stabbing attack at a town celebration, an attack already factoring into

00:10the country's debate on immigration.

00:13I just heard that the far right youth party is talking about coming together today here,

00:23so of course we are very afraid that the right wing is getting more and more power and that's

00:30definitely not the way, of course we have to ask some hard questions but racism is never

00:36the answer.

00:37Indeed, the far right alternative for Germany's youth wing lit candles and lay flowers in

00:43front of a banner that read Our People First.

00:45Furthermore, a prominent figure in the centre-right CDU opposition party has called for the country

00:51to stop taking in refugees from Syria and Afghanistan in response to the attack.

00:57This after the 26-year-old suspect, who turned himself in to police over the stabbing, was

01:01revealed to be from Syria and to have filed an asylum claim in 2022.

01:06We're investigating, among other things, murder and attempted murder and, which also explains

01:12the jurisdiction of the Federal Public Prosecutor General, membership of a foreign terrorist

01:17organisation, namely the so-called Islamic State group.

01:23Prosecutors say the suspect, Issa al-H, shared the ideology of the radical Islamist terror

01:28organisation and was acting on those beliefs when he stabbed his victims repeatedly.

01:34Islamic State have claimed responsibility for the attack, which they say targeted Christians

01:39too, in their words, avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere, although they have provided

01:45no evidence of their involvement.

01:47A 15-year-old was also arrested on Saturday, suspected of having knowledge of the planned attack.

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