Angela Merkel is pelted with TOMATOES during raucous election rally as furious voters call her a liar over her refugee open doors policyDaily Mail/UK, Sep 6, 2017
German leader Angela Merkel was hit by a tomato thrown by a protester attending a pre-election tally in Heidelberg on Tuesday.
The 63-year-old Chancellor came under literal and actual fire from hundreds of protesters voicing their upset over her 'open doors' policy during the 2015 migrant crisis.
Police said two tomatoes were thrown during different parts of the Chancellor's speech with one striking her left hip.
One of her aides was also hit by the flying fruit as the words 'liar' and 'hypocrite' rang in her ears.
The noisy demonstration was fresh evidence that not all votes are guaranteed at the general election on September 24 when she seeks a fourth term in power.
Some 3,000 people were at the rally and those who demonstrated against her were angry at her refugee policies which have seen over a million unvetted immigrants enter the country in the last two years.
'If we made a mistake, then it wasn't in taking in people, ' Mrs. Merkel said in defence of her decision to open the doors to migrants in 2015.
'But rather that we didn't pay attention to the fact that people in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Syria didn't have enough to eat, weren't getting an education and put themselves into the hands of people smugglers.'
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