Following a deadly knife attack at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck has spoken out in favour of stricter weapons laws.
“We don’t know whether the terrible crime in Solingen could have been prevented with stricter laws,” Habeck said, but some tightening of weapons restrictions is simply right and necessary.
“More weapons-free zones and stricter weapons laws – nobody in Germany needs cutting and stabbing weapons in public. We are no longer living in the Middle Ages,” Habeck said.
Habeck, from the Green Party, is among several German political leaders who have urged tighter weapons rules in the wake of the attack on Friday, which left three dead and several injured.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Justice Minister Marco Buschmann, whose free-market liberal Free Democrats (FDP), have also called for significantly stricter weapons laws.
Source: Qatar News Agency