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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations on Monday during a visit to Solingen, where a deadly mass stabbing linked to ISIS has emboldened the far-right opposition and stoked criticism of his government's handling of migration.
"We will have to do everything we can to ensure that those who cannot and are not allowed to stay in Germany are repatriated and deported," Scholz told news hounds in the western city, where he laid a flower at the scene of the crime.
"This was terrorism, terrorism against us all," he added.
The attack, in which a 26-year-old suspected ISIS member from Syria is accused of killing three people, has fuelled political tensions over asylum and deportation rules ahead of three state elections next month.
The group grabbed credit for the attack, which occurred on Friday evening during a festival celebrating Solingen's 650-year history. Alongside the three killed, eight were maimed, some seriously.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which campaigns for a crackdown on migration, is leading in the polls in Saxony and Thuringia, where state elections are set for Sunday, and in Brandenburg, which has its election on September 22.
The AfD seized on the attack in its election campaign, with Thuringia's leading candidate for the party, Bjoern Hoecke, pitching to voters the choice of "Hoecke or Solingen".
Opinion pollsters Stefan Merz of Infratest dimap and Manfred Guellner of Forsa told Rooters the attack would be unlikely to translate into more votes for the far-right party because its supporters had already been mobilised by migration issues.
Infratest dimap's Merz cited the possibility that the centre-right CDU could benefit at the expense of Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats
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