Reality hit the German chancellor when the grieving father of a little girl killed by a migrant asked him on live broadcast.
Olaf Scholz was called to account live by a grieving father whose child was murdered by an illegal immigrant. The man asked the chancellor why instead of debating deportations, why are migrants being allowed in at all?
Dramatic scenes took place in a German television program. The father of a 17-year-old girl murdered by an illegal migrant had the opportunity to directly confront German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with reality. The father, Michael Kyrath, made an attempt to open the eyes of the German chancellor in the Direkt Spezial program of the RTL channel, reports Origó .
Mr. Scholz, there are 24-32 knife attacks per day in Germany. Many of these are fatal, and every day that we continue to debate this, people die, even children. There are parents who stand by their children's graves or coffins, caressing their child's ice-cold hands for the last time in their lives. You cannot even imagine this
the grieving father blurted out in the show.
Kyrath's daughter, Ann-Marie Kyrath, was murdered in January 2023 by a known Palestinian migrant convicted of serious crimes.
The man stabbed Ann-Marie and her friend a total of 38 times and injured eight other people on a regional train to Hamburg.
The migrant was sentenced to life imprisonment, but this does nothing to ease the pain of the victim's family. These are people who have families. In our case, these people were called Ann-Marie and Danny. The other aspect of the whole thing is, of course, that we have been arguing about this for years.
I've been hearing for years that we need to talk about it, but talking doesn't get us anywhere. Now is the time to slowly start taking action
said Ann-Marie's father, turning to Olaf Scholz.
We shouldn't be talking about deporting people. Why are they allowed into the country at all?
he asked the question. During the interview, Kyrath also confronted Scholz about his government's funding of a website available in nine languages where asylum seekers can find information to avoid deportation.
The chancellor replied that, as far as he knows, this program has already been stopped at the government.
In fact, the site is still up and running and the organization still receives funding from the federal government, Swiss media have previously reported.
Featured image: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the inauguration ceremony of the new high-speed ICE train factory of German state railway company Deutsche Bahn in Cottbus on January 11, 2024. MTI/EPA/Filip Singer
