German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday "firmly" rejected calls to reverse her welcoming stance towards refugees following a series of brutal attacks in the country.
Merkel told reporters that the assailants "wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need".
"We firmly reject this," she said.
Merkel, who interrupted a summer holiday at her cottage north of Berlin to face the media in the capital, told reporters that four brutal assaults within a week were "shocking, oppressive and depressing" but not a sign that authorities had lost control.
But she repeated her rallying cry from last year when she opened the borders to people fleeing war and persecution, many from Syria, which brought nearly 1.1 million migrants and refugees to the country in 2015.
"I am still convinced today that 'we can do it' -- it is our historic duty and this is a historic challenge in times of globalisation," she said. "We have already achieved very, very much in the last 11 months."
"The terrorists want to make us lose sight of what is important to us, break down our cohesion and sense of community as well as inhibiting our way of life, our openness and our willingness take in people who are in need," she added. "They see hatred and fear between cultures and they see hatred and fear between religions. We stand decisively against that," she added...
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
28/7/16
Merkel told reporters that the assailants "wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need".
"We firmly reject this," she said.
Merkel, who interrupted a summer holiday at her cottage north of Berlin to face the media in the capital, told reporters that four brutal assaults within a week were "shocking, oppressive and depressing" but not a sign that authorities had lost control.
- "Taboos of civilisation are being broken," she said, referring to a series of deadly attacks in France, Belgium, Turkey and the US state of Florida as well as Germany. "These acts happened in places where any of us could have been."
But she repeated her rallying cry from last year when she opened the borders to people fleeing war and persecution, many from Syria, which brought nearly 1.1 million migrants and refugees to the country in 2015.
"I am still convinced today that 'we can do it' -- it is our historic duty and this is a historic challenge in times of globalisation," she said. "We have already achieved very, very much in the last 11 months."
"The terrorists want to make us lose sight of what is important to us, break down our cohesion and sense of community as well as inhibiting our way of life, our openness and our willingness take in people who are in need," she added. "They see hatred and fear between cultures and they see hatred and fear between religions. We stand decisively against that," she added...
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
28/7/16
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Malgré les attentats, Angela Merkel ne change pas sa politique d'asile: "Les terroristes veulent remettre en cause notre solidarité"...
ReplyDeleteLa chancelière allemande Angela Merkel a "fermement" rejeté jeudi les appels à remettre en cause l'accueil des migrants dans son pays après deux attentats perpétrés par des réfugiés ces derniers jours.
Les djihadistes "veulent remettre en cause notre disposition à accueillir des gens en détresse. Nous nous y opposons fermement", a lancé la dirigeante conservatrice lors d'une conférence de presse à Berlin, alors que sa politique d'accueil est à nouveau très critiquée en Allemagne.
"Nous allons y arriver"
La dirigeante conservatrice a réaffirmé son credo, "Nous allons y arriver" ("wir schaffen das", en allemand), lancé à la fin de l'été 2015 quand l'Allemagne a ouvert ses portes à des centaines de milliers de réfugiés fuyant la guerre ou la misère. "Je suis aujourd'hui comme hier convaincue que nous allons arriver à mener à bien cette épreuve historique en ces temps de mondialisation", a-t-elle insisté. "Nous allons y arriver et nous avons déjà réussi beaucoup, beaucoup de choses ces derniers mois", a-t-elle ajouté.
Mme Merkel a reconnu que les attentats provoquaient "une grande insécurité" dans l'opinion : "les gens ont peur, on ne peut pas le contester". Mais "la peur ne peut servir de fondement pour l'action politique", a souligné la chancelière, en réponse à ceux qui dans son propre camp l'appellent à donner un net tour de vis à sa politique d'immigration. "Le principe fondamental selon lequel un pays comme l'Allemagne ne peut renoncer à sa responsabilité humanitaire, mais au contraire doit l'assumer, est valable", a ajouté Mme Merkel....rtl.be