German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for a severe punishment for the perpetrator of the knife attack in Solingen and has also pledged aid to the city in western Germany.
“We cannot accept something like this in our society and will never get used to it. We must act with the full severity of the law,” Scholz said at an event in Stahnsdorf in Brandenburg, near Berlin.
Scholz called the attack a “terrible crime” and called for full implementation of the law.
“We will also help the city and its residents with everything at our disposal,” he said. “We fervently hope that the lives of the wounded will be saved, and we stand with the relatives of the wounded and deceased and with the entire city,” he said.
