(26 Aug 2024)
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Solingen, German – 26 August 2024
1. Black flag on balcony and Carousel
2. Group of police standing
3. Olaf Scholz, German chancellor, Henrik Wüst, Minister President of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Tim Kurzbach, Mayor of Solingen and Herbert Reul, Minister of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia walking towards memorial of candles and flowers
4. Candles and flowers
5. Scholz, Wüst, Kurzbach, and Reul laying down a flower each at the memorial
6. Close Olaf Scholz
7. Scholz, Wüst, Kurzbach, and Reul walking away
8. Scholz arriving for Press statement
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“That was terrorism. Terrorism against all of us, threatening our lives, our togetherness. The way we live. That is also what those who plan and carry out such attacks always intend. And that is something that we will never tolerate and that we will never accept.”
10. Scholz speaking
11. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“Now it is very important that we do what is necessary. And that’s why I want to make it clear with regard to the perpetrator that I am angry and furious about this crime. It must be punished quickly and severely.”
12. Flower and candle memorial with women laying down flowers
13. Flower and candle memorial with sign reading (German): “Why?”
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“Obviously, we will now have to tighten up the legal regulations on weapons that we in Germany have. This applies in particular to the use of knives, but also to many other things that need to be regulated. And that should and will happen very quickly now. I am sure that if the Federal Government makes a proposal on this, it can be brought forward and passed quickly and together with the legislators in the Bundestag and Bundesrat.”
15. Flower and candle memorial
16. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
“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, with the legal regulations that we have all just agreed on together.”
17. Angel wings at memorial
18. Scholz, Wüst, Kurzbach, and Reul posing for a photo with volunteers and rescue workers
19. Scholz, Wüst, Kurzbach, and Reul with volunteers and rescue workers
20. Scholz with Volunteers and rescue workers
21. Empty stage of the festival with video showing a single red lit candle
STORYLINE:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers Monday as he visited the scene of the stabbing attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people.
Scholz, speaking after he joined regional officials in laying a white flower at a makeshift memorial in the western city of Solingen, said he was “furious and angry” about the attack, in which a further eight people were wounded.
The suspect turned himself in to police on Saturday evening, a day after the attack at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary.
Federal prosecutors said Sunday that he shared the radical ideology of the Islamic State group, which he joined at a point that remains unclear, and was acting on those beliefs when he stabbed his victims repeatedly from behind in the neck and upper body.
The 26-year-old’s asylum application had been rejected and he was supposed to be deported last year to Bulgaria, where he first entered the European Union.
His deportation never happened because he disappeared for a time, according to German media reports.
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