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2016-07-27 Europe
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‘Islamist terrorism has arrived in Germany’: official
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Islamist terrorism has arrived in Germany and politicians must address the public's concerns about security and immigration, Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer said on Tuesday.
"Each attack, each act of terrorism, is one too many. Islamist terrorism has arrived in Germany," Seehofer told a news conference.
A spate of attacks in Germany since July 18 have left 11 people dead and dozens injured, fuelling public unease about Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom ...
's open-door refugee policy. More than a million migrants colonists entered Germany last year, many fleeing conflict in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
This month, four brutal attacks have taken place in the south of the country.
A Syrian asylum seeker went kaboom! outside a music festival and maimed 15 other people in Ansbach on Sunday, six days after four passengers on a train and a passer-by were maimed in an axe attack by an Afghan refugee in Wuerzburg.
ISIS claimed both attacks.
On Friday, nine people were killed in a shopping center shooting spree in Munich by a German-Iranian teenager with a history of psychological problems.
Although authorities initially claimed the 18-year-old gunman had no links to myrmidons, Bavarian officials said on Monday that the 18-year-old gunman had been in touch with the Afghan ax attacker over WhatsApp.
And a Syrian refugee killed a 45-year-old Polish woman with a large kebab knife Sunday at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen.
Police concluded that the incident, in which three others were maimed, was likely a "crime of passion".
German officials demand better checking of migrants after attacks
[IsraelTimes] Top security officials in Germany called Tuesday for tougher security screening of asylum-seekers and also announced that more police officers would be hired following four attacks in the country in the span of a week — two of them claimed by the extremist Islamic State group.
Horst Seehofer, the governor of Bavaria told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung Tuesday: “We must know who is in our country.”
Thomas Strobl, the interior minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg also demanded a tougher stance toward asylum-seekers.
“Those who abuse the right to hospitality must go back to their home countries — make no mistake about it,” Strobl told Funke media group.
Seehofer also announced that the state of Bavaria would hire more police officers.
“The increase will be significant,” he said. 
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