BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel told Germans in her New Year message that their country is stronger than terrorism and the government will do everything to ensure “security in freedom.”
Merkel said in her annual televised address broadcast on Saturday that 2016 had been “a year of severe tests,” the toughest of them extremist terror. She added, however, that she is “confident for Germany.”
On Dec. 19, 12 people were killed in a truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market. Daesh (the so-called IS) claimed responsibility for that rampage, as it did for two attacks in Bavaria in the summer in which the assailants — who came to Germany as asylum-seekers, like the chief suspect in Berlin — were killed and a total of 20 people were wounded.
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