EU Migration Policy Should Be Reconsidered After Recent Attacks in Germany

The European Union should reconsider its migration policy in light of the recent attacks in Germany, Slovenian Ambassador to Russia Primoz Sheligo told Sputnik Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The European Union is currently struggling to manage a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people leaving conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa to escape violence and poverty and seeking asylum in Europe. In 2015, more than 1 million migrants and asylum seekers arrived to Germany.

“What has happened [in Germany] in the last few days is horrible and inhuman. Perhaps, EU migration policy should be reconsidered. The system on the borders is [still] valid but the events of recent days are not predictable,” Sheligo said.

On Friday, in Munich, the capital of Germany’s southeastern state of Bavaria, 18-year-old German-Iranian man Ali David Sonboly opened fire in the crowded Olympia shopping mall and a nearby McDonald's restaurant, killing nine people before committing suicide.

On Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian asylum seeker attacked a 42-year-old pregnant Polish woman with a machete in the southern German town of Reutlingen. The victim died as a result of the attack while five other people were injured.

Also on Sunday, an explosion went off in the southern German city of Ansbach, not far from a music festival venue. The blast left one person dead and at least 12 injured. Local police believe that the man killed by the explosion, a Syrian national whose asylum application had been rejected, detonated the bomb.