After the Solingen knife attack: Should Germany change its migration policy? | To the Point

Germany is still in shock after the knife attack in the Western city of Solingen, where three people were killed on a Friday night.
While families process the grief and horror, questions arise. Why is Germany subject to these types of attacks?
The suspected perpetrator, with alleged links to ISIS, came from Syria, eluded the German authorities, and committed murder.
The result: heated political debates about weapon laws, deportations, and asylum. All this just days before crucial state elections.

On To the Point we ask: After the Solingen knife attack: Should Germany change its migration policy?

Our guests:

Hans-Jakob Schindler is a terrorism expert and director of the Counter Extremism Project

Amir Musawy is a freelance Journalist from Irak, who just returned from reporting in Solingen

and Morten Freidel is the deputy editor-in-chief of NZZ Germany, joining us from the city of Zürich.


Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:30 Why did the law fail to protect Germans?
03:00 ISIS is finding the way back to the public discourse
03:41 Many people are very concerned about migration politics
04:30 The terror threat never disappeared; it was just waiting for the right moment
05:55 How can open societies protect themselves?
07:10 Terrorism is not being combatted in the core areas anymore
08:00 Terrorists move largely unhindered on the Internet
08:40 Police and constitutional protection must no longer be cut back
10:20 Should migration problems be addressed more openly?
11:30 Laws must be implemented more consistently
13:00 Have politicians failed to manage migration?
14:30 Several failures enabled the attack in Solingen
15:50 How does international terrorism work?
16:50 Is there too much data protection in Germany?
17:05 “Zeitenwende” is more than rockets and guns
18:14 Do we need more border controls?
20:50 Does the German government want a strict migration policy?
22:00 Right-wing populism is rising
23:30 Is insecurity the price to pay for an open society?
24:20 Is there a “back to normal” after the Solingen attacks?

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