Scholz vows tougher asylum rules after suspected Islamist attack

Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations and bring down irregular migration on Monday during a visit to the city of Solingen, where three people were killed in a mass stabbing over the weekend. The attack, which investigators believe was carried out by a suspected Islamic State member from Syria, has fuelled political tensions over asylum and deportation rules as well as violent crime ahead of three state elections next month. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: