The Chairman of the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag, Lars Castellucci (SPD), is pushing for a special meeting of the Interior Committee in the event of a suspected attack by an Afghan asylum seeker.
“If it is indeed an attack, we must ensure parliamentary scrutiny, regardless of the election date” Castellucci told the newspapers of the Bayern Media Group. “The Interior Committee is fully functional until the new Bundestag is constituted.”
The new Bundestag is set to convene on March 25. Castellucci is appealing for a political response from the democratic center. “Each of these acts of violence shakes our country. Politics should not amplify this by continued party strife. The people want an appropriate response from the democratic center.”
The CSU’s Andrea Lindholz, an interior policy expert, sees migration policy as the first major task of a new government: “The backgrounds of the act must be quickly clarified. If the suspicion of a premeditated act is confirmed, we must act with a clear head and full consequences. This series of attacks must come to an end” Lindholz told the Bayern Media Group. “We must protect our population. This will be the first major task of the new federal government.