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German opposition leader Friedrich Merz said he expects Chancellor Olaf Scholz to work with him to tighten migration policy, days after a deadly knife attack by a Syrian man who had evaded deportation. Three people were killed and eight others wounded, four of them seriously, during a stabbing spree at a festival on Friday evening in the western city of Solingen. The suspected perpetrator – a 26-year-old Syrian man who has been remanded in custody – was supposed to have been deported to Bulgaria last year after his request for asylum in Germany had been rejected. Merz, the leader of Germany’s …

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