Asylum-Seekers: Attacks and News Conference

asylum-seekers: He also called for tougher background checks on asylum-seekers and new strategies to deport criminal asylum-seekers more easily, according to Metro News. Three of the four attacks were committed by asylum-seekers."The threat of Salafist terrorism has arrived in Europe, in Germany, but also in Bavaria," Bavarian Justice Minister Winfried Bausback said at a news conference with Herrmann. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said his state — where three of the four attacks took place — would hire some 2,000 additional police officers by 2020, improve police officers' equipment and create new offices to fight Muslim extremism and cybercrime. Two of the attacks — an axe attack near Wuerzburg that wounded five and a suicide bombing that injured 15 outside a bar in Ansbach — were the first in Germany to be claimed by the Islamic State group. In two other attacks — a mass shooting in Munich that claimed 10 lives, including the attacker's, and the stabbing of a woman at a restaurant in Reutlingen — the motive is still unclear but Islamic extremism is not suspected. Both of the attackers were killed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.