Angela Merkel: Do not blame innocent refugees for Cologne attacks
A string of attacks on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve blamed largely on foreigners was “intolerable,” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said, but “nothing excuses” retaliatory assaults on immigrants.
Merkel has proposed making it easier to deport immigrants involved in crimes, and her spokesman Steffen Seibert emphasised that the government is looking into both “possible consequences for criminal law (and) possible political consequences for the intolerable crimes”.
