Ms. Merkel, who runs the government, sat in the audience during the memorial but didn’t speak. “We have already accomplished a great deal in the last 11 months,” Ms. Merkel said Thursday, referring to a period in which hundreds of thousands of people seeking asylum streamed into Germany. German leaders on Sunday paid respects to the victims of the July 22 mass shooting in Munich and sought to calm a public unsettled by a series of attacks. “If mass shooters and terrorists have something in common, it is likely alone the intention to rob our feeling of security and normality,” Mr. Gauck said. “But there is one thing we will not give either the mass shooters and attackers or the terrorists: our submission.”Mr. Gauck is Germany’s head of state, but his position is largely symbolic.

Source: Fox News July 31, 2016 18:22 UTC