This headline is grievously misleading!
What Angela Merkel actually said - FOUR YEARS AGO - was:Der Ansatz für Multikulti ist gescheitert, absolut gescheitert!
In other words: "The approach we have been taking towards achieving the [highly desireable] multicultural society has failed, absolutely failed!" In other words: "We must try harder!"
Regards,
She said “the approach” has failed.