Merkel is said to have made the remark while speaking to members of her Christian Democrat party (CDU) at its closed-door annual policy meeting in the western city of Mainz on Saturday, sources told Der Spiegel.
The gathering – which was reportedly “very heated” – focused on introducing tougher criminal penalties following the Cologne attacks.
They have also already led to a dismissal, with Wolfgang Albers, the president of Cologne police, forced to leave his post after grave misgivings were expressed about his force’s handling of events.
CDU party members repeatedly insisted that the New Year attacks marked a “sea change” in attitudes to Germany’s open-door policy, which has seen around 1.1 million refugees arrive over the past 12 months.
The meeting quickly evolved into a crisis summit for Merkel, with a number of voices previously in favour of her refugee policy saying they now had doubts. It also discussed the withdrawal of refugee or asylum-seeker status from anyone sentenced to a non-parole prison term.
At the same time, Merkel said that the government had to do more to calm people’s nerves. She is reported to have said that she believed more unrest would follow.
Participants in the meeting said she feared the Cologne perpetrators would not be given tough enough sentences to lead to their deportation. “The people will not understand this. We must have answers to this topic,” she is reported to have said.
The other unanswered question is where the asylum seekers might be deported to: it would be impossible to send someone back to a war zone.
Volker Bouffier, the prime minister of the state of Hesse, told the meeting: “Cologne has changed everything. People are full of doubt.”
Many CDU members reported how unhappy the mood was in their own constituencies, with Arnold Vaatz, the deputy chair of the CDU’s parliamentary faction, saying: “People are speaking about a loss of control.”
Carsten Linnemann, head of the CDU’s Mittelstand association, which represents the medium-sized companies that make up the bulk of the German economy, reported that many of the CDU members he knew were considering leaving the party out of disgust over the refugee policy.
“We need to call a spade a spade,” Linnemann said. “What Cologne demonstrates is that if the stream [of refugees] remains so high, integration will not work.”But Merkel has so far shown no sign of shifting from her position that Germany must remain open to giving refuge to those in need.
The Guardian
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Hmmmmmmm
#It WiLL oNLy gEt beTTer
#iT MuSt eNd IN pRAisE
Hmmm
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Nice one you should also ban Muslims too cause they are worster than rapist.
#sad indeed
Now she's forced to take action
Na dem sabi biko. Linda take note!
Yes they should..u can't come into someone's country and start messing up
~make I go take one bottle of beer~
Whatever,after all Dem never give me visa before.
Edobabe#replinda#
Wateva dis means
...merited happiness
And let Dem give it 2 her....
Out of all the good immigrants u will always see a bad one there!!
#Noted
*dew*
They should be sent back to the war zone since they can't just be good. Always doing harm to the society. I blame merkel for allowing them enter Germany at first.
gud..
#my2cents
You brought them in and you're the one throwing them out, whatever thou doest, do quickly.
Good. All this ungrateful asylum seekers should be made to pay dearly. It's Not enough That their inconveniencing the country with their population, but they mess up.
@Lindaikeji No. I FAN
Kia... Dem go pursue all dis hustler come home
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Send them to Biafra
I I's have it
Better
Nawa oo,
Let's go Linda
Merkel luks more beautiful compared to 2014 during d world cup in Brazil
My Delta peeps will say: NA UR EYE. You allowed over a million refugees into Germany, good gesture, only snag was dat u ve opened ur country to potential n known terrorist. The question is, why did d gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait etc not take a single refugee?
I guess she just realised the the implications of her good deed. #IRepLIB
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Good
2016
Hmmmmmm,#Abi linda#
Ok.
i will say dis any day n time, ur people first.
If u re tryin to help n it ends up bitin u in d ass, u will have no oda person to blame but ur self.
hmmmmmm...
Observed, nah so, am in love with Linda Ikeji for real and would wish to meet her in person as my 2016 resolution.
Eyah! Ndo
Tosisochukwu! Marry me
!brightosman aka fake phyno .#gerarahere
Issorite.
If they deserved it.
#100kOnMyMind
hmmm nxt? #lindamustwrytjamb
Hmmmmmmm....
Open ya eyes.
Okay
Am disgusted with whatt happened in cologne. A country is welcoming you and you haave nothing better to do than crimes!! IT'S TIME WE CLOSE THE DOORS NOW. some people weren't really suffering in their countries I guess,because if you went through traumatic situations you would love to find peace and make a life. People are looking at us foreigners who have been here for decades paying tax with a different eye. A lot of insecurity people are having NOW!! I do understand them as a foreigner!!! Am disgusted really to the highest !!!
good thinking
Hmmmm...these laws would do better when placed
Yawns
Yawns
hmmm
No be small Bombshell oo, u r seeking Assylum and still have d guts to commit crime? Odiegwu oo
For the good of her country
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
But what was on d minds of those migrants? They must face d music.
But what was on d minds of those migrants? They must face d music.
But what was on d minds of those migrants? They must face d music.
ALRIGHT THEN
very gud...
OK..
#FINEST
Nice...
AJ MAIN BOY...
Asylum seekers gone wrong
This f####kin immigrants have just worsened the case for people going to Allemagne.
These refugees will do more harm than good. They are evil as satan itself. They should all be deported and it is so sad that Arab nations do not even want to see them talkless of housing them.
Unsere Kanzlerin,wir sind hinter Ihnen. Wir werden Ihnen so viel Unterstützung wie möglich geben
That s why dy deserve that war zone in their country cos dy don't like peace, imagin after accepting them, they are messing up.
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