German chancellor's comments on toughening up deportation policy come after a series of violent incidents in the country, including a stabbing at a far-right rally in Mannheim.
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00:00Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed Germany will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan
00:06and Syria again after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant left four wounded and one
00:11dead in Mannheim last week.
00:15The 25-year-old attacker had come to Germany in 2014 as an asylum seeker.
00:23Addressing Germany's parliament, Scholz promised that deportation rules for all who commit
00:28or support criminal or terrorist acts would be tightened.
00:49Germany does not currently deport convicted asylum seekers to Afghanistan or Syria, but
00:55the chancellor said his government was working on a solution to enable deportation to Afghanistan's
01:00neighbouring countries.
01:05Migration has been one of the major topics that far-right and mainstream parties have
01:09been exploiting in order to gain votes in the European elections.
01:17Scholz and his Social Democrats, as well as other mainstream parties, have been trying
01:21to depict themselves as tough on migration and radical Islam, in hopes that voters won't
01:26turn to the far-right alternative for Germany to tackle these issues.