Chancellor Angela Merkel says she has told Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi in a phone call that Germany wants to speed up the deportation of failed asylum seekers and increase the number of those expelled.<br /><br /> Speaking after Italian police shot dead Berlin truck attack suspect Anis Amri, himself a failed Tunisian asylum seeker, she said questions had been raised not only about the attack but also about the time before he came to Germany in July 2015.<br /><br /> “We are going to check, with urgency, the extent to which government measures must be changed,” said Merkel, who is standing for a fourth term in 2017, despite waning popularity due to her open-door migrant policy.<br /><br /> How the Berlin truck attack will change Germany https://t.co/dlquLdPUSR pic.twitter.com/9kk64i4gNG— The Local Germany (@TheLocalGermany) 23 décembre 2016<br /><br /> Recognising the ongoing terrorist threat, she defended German society.<br /><br /> “Our democracy, our constitutional state, our values, our humanity – are the opposite model to the hatred of terrorism and they will be stronger than terrorism,” Merkel told reporters.<br /><br /> with Reuters<br />
