Solingen

A Syrian man has admitted carrying out a knife attack in the German town of Solingen last August in which three people were killed.

Then, in August, another knife attack left eight people injured and three dead in Solingen.

In Solingen, where a Syrian was accused of stabbing to death three people last August, hundreds of people turned out on Friday night to speak out against the rise of the far right.

Months later, three people were murdered by a man armed with a knife in the western city of Solingen.

Merz, whose Christian Democrats lead the opinion polls ahead of 23 February federal elections, refused to accept that attacks in Mannheim last May, Solingen in August and Magdeburg last month, would be "the new normal".