During a visit to Solingen, where three people were killed in a mass stabbing over the weekend, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to step up deportations and reduce irregular migration.

"This was terrorism—terrorism against all of us, threatening our lives and our way of living," Scholz said after laying a flower at the site of the attack to honor the victims.

"We must do everything possible to ensure that those who cannot stay in Germany are repatriated and deported."

The attack, believed to have been carried out by a suspected Islamic State member from Syria, has heightened political tensions over asylum and deportation policies, as well as violent crime, ahead of three state elections next month.

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