Chancellor Angela Merkel had some critical words for the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin after both states experienced terror attacks in recent months. Merkel gave an interview to publishing group Funke Mediengruppe, published on ThursdayThere are “unfortunately very different levels of laws in individual states,” Merkel said. “The states should therefore work to reach the same security level, because North Rhine-Westphalia for example practices, regrettably, no random police checks,” she continued. “This is indeed done in Bavaria, but not in Berlin or NRW,” she said. Merkel also said that one should not forget "that our country was already in the sights of Islamist terrorism before the many refugees came to us."

Source: The Local April 13, 2017 10:30 UTC