German refugee murder arrest in Freiburg heightens tensions - BBC

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German refugee murder arrest in Freiburg heightens tensions
By Jenny Hill BBC Berlin correspondent

For days now photographs of a smiling young woman have haunted newspaper headlines and online news sites.

Maria L was 19 when she was murdered in October.

The circumstances of her death are horrifying enough.

But Germans have been sickened by revelations that a teenage Afghan asylum seeker may have been responsible for the rape and drowning of the young medical student, who volunteered for a charity that helped refugees.

The news has reignited a harrowing national debate over whether Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open Germany's doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees has put her citizens in danger.

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Daily Mail:

Angela Merkel dismisses rape and murder of EU official's daughter as 'an isolated incident' and insists Germany's migrant influx has not led to a surge in violent crime

    Angela Merkel has played down tow recent high profile sex assaults in Germany
    Iraqi refugee Zaid K, 31, accused of sexually assaulting two Chinese students
    He came to Germany in 2015 with wife and children, living in city of Bochum
    Comes after arrest of an Afghan migrant over the killing of a student in Freiburg

By Afp and Chris Summers For Mailonlin

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted a record influx of refugees has not led to a surge in violent crime, despite a spate of high profiles cases.

She said the rape and murder of a German student allegedly committed by a teenage Afghan asylum seeker and the arrest of a 31-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker over sexual assaults on two Chinese students were 'terrible isolated incidents'.

Merkel, whose CDU party is holding its annual conference in the city of Essen, called for 'tough sentencing' where people were convicted of serious crimes.

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