Merz, whose centre-right bloc currently tops the polls, is toughening his stance on migration ahead of federal elections next month.
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00:00The leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, vowed to crack down
00:06on illegal immigration if he is elected as chancellor next month.
00:12The opposition party leader said he would bar people from entering the country without
00:16proper papers and that he would increase deportations.
00:21His statement comes just a day after two people were killed and three injured in an attack
00:26in Bavaria.
00:57The attack comes at a politically sensitive moment, with Germany's national election to
01:02be held on February 23rd.
01:06Support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberal Free
01:10Democrats has declined.
01:12Meanwhile, opinion polls show that support has increased for opposition parties Christian
01:17Democratic Union and Far-Right Alternative for Germany.