[News]Germany to tighten knife laws as anger grows at mass stabbing

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The German government has announced a security package including knife bans and tougher asylum measures after three people were fatally stabbed at a street festival in the western town of Solingen.
The killings shocked Germany and sparked an intense debate over asylum laws when it emerged the main suspect was a 26-year-old Syrian refugee facing deportation.
Issa Al H is being investigated for murder and links to militant group Islamic State (IS).
The government announced its plans three days before elections in two states in eastern Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is riding high in the polls.
In Thuringia, the AfD are being tipped to come first, ahead of the conservative CDU, while in Saxony, opinion polls put the two parties neck and neck.
The anti-immigration party has little chance of coming to power in either state as no other group is prepared to help the AfD form a majority.
However, the vote could end up as a humiliation for the three parties running the federal government as they are all running below 10% in the polls.

Ministers from the Social Democrats, Greens and Liberal FDP held a joint press conference on Thursday to outline what they said were far-reaching measures.
Knives are to be banned at most public events including markets and sport as well as on public transport, and there will be a blanket ban on flick knives.
Foreigners ordered to leave the country will have to be deported more quickly and efficiently, they say. Anyone facing a jail term for knife crime would face fast deportation.
A task force for the prevention of Islamism is being proposed and biometric facial recognition will be used to help identify suspects. IS said it was behind the Solingen attack and a day afterwards released a video purportedly showing the suspect in a mask.

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