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  • German police spray anti-migrant protesters, Merkel toughens tone

    01/09/2016 8:45:20 AM PST · by PROCON · 148 replies
    reuters ^ | Jan. 9, 2016 | Joseph Nasr and Andreas Rinke
    Migrants who commit crimes should lose their right to asylum, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, toughening her tone as police in Cologne confronted right-wing protesters venting their anger at mass assaults on women on New Year's Eve. Police in the western city fired water canon to disperse protesters from the anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement, which has seized on the alleged involvement of migrants in the New Year attacks and stepped up its calls for a halt to the influx. Nearly two dozen asylum seekers were among those suspected of carrying out the attacks, police said this week, heightening tensions...