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  • Hans-Georg Maassen slammed German Chancellor’s Ms Merkel’s border control
  • The 58-year-old blasted her decision to let in around 1.2million migrants in 2015
  • His comments come just over a week after Somali immigrant knifed three people
  • The 24-year-old shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he carried out his attack in Wurzburg

Gemma Parry – MailOnline July 3, 2021

Angela Merkel’s immigration policies are ‘fatal’ and Germany is ‘declining politically and economically’, the former head of the country’s spy agency has warned.

Hans-Georg Maassen, who ran the Office for the Protection of the Constitution until 2018, slammed the Chancellor’s border controls in a scathing interview.

The 58-year-old blasted Mrs Merkel’s decision to let in around 1.2million migrants in 2015 while he was in office under her

He claimed Germans ‘cannot understand why ever more people are coming into this country even though they obviously have no right to asylum’.

His comments come just a week after a Somali immigrant – who got into the country as a refugee in 2015 – knifed three people to death.

The 24-year-old yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he carried out his sickening attack in Wurzburg before being shot by police.


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Mr Maassen, who is running as an MP for the CDU in Thuringia, told the Times: ‘The CDU has clearly taken a lot of damage over the past 20 years.

‘It’s become a club for electing the chancellor under the slogan ‘We want Merkel re-elected’, but the actual political and programmatic substance is gone.’

He admitted Mrs Merkel was a ‘strong-willed woman and a top political performer’ and praised her role in the eurozone debt crisis.

But he said: ‘I just think it’s a shame that we are falling far below our potential in Germany.

‘I have the impression that many people have made their peace with the fact that we are declining ever further politically and economically.’

He added: ‘[Germans] simply cannot understand why ever more people are coming into this country even though they obviously have no right to asylum; why we aren’t deporting them and why politicians just put up with the fact that the people here are falling victim to these migrants.’

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