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                    Merkel Rejects Reversing Refugee Policy

   by VOA News

   German Chancellor Angela Merkel has "firmly" rejected calls to reverse
   her open door policy toward refugees, following several attacks in the
   country within a week.

   Merkel said Thursday the assailants "wanted to undermine our sense of
   community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need" and
   "we firmly reject that."

   She called the four most recent terror attacks in Germany "shocking,
   aggrieving and depressing," but not a sign that authorities have lost
   control over the situation.

   Attacks in Germany since July 18 left 15 people dead, including four
   attackers, and dozens injured.

   Three of the four attackers were asylum-seekers and the Islamic State
   militant group claimed responsibility for two of the attacks.

   Referring to the four terror attacks in Germany since July 18 and
   deadly attacks in France, Belgium, Turkey and in the U.S. state of
   Florida, Merkel said that "taboos of civilization" had been broken.

   But Merkel reaffirmed her position that Germany would uphold its
   principles in giving shelter to those who need and deserve it.

   Since last year, Germany has opened its borders to more than one
   million migrants and refugees fleeing war, persecution and poverty in
   the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and most of them from Syria.

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