Merkel denies Trump for criminality in Germany

German Chancellor Angela Merkel today denied US President Donald Trump's statements, which again supported the againis that crime is on the rise in Germany because of the influx of immigrants. My response to that is that the German Interior Minister recently introduced statistics on criminality and facts speak for itself”, Merkel said. A few hours [...]
My response to that is that the German Interior Minister recently introduced statistics on criminality and facts speak for itself”, Merkel said.
A few hours ago, Trump spoke on Twitter for the second time in two days that crime has increased in Germany since Merkel opened her country's doors to more than a million asylum seekers since 2015.
The American president further stressed that German officials do not want to calculate exactly these crimes. In a report for 2017 published early in May, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer welcomed the fact that in 2017, the number of physical attacks on persons or assets reached the lowest historic level since 1992, since the drafting of statistics on reunified Germany.











