With their anti-migrant tirades, the establishment parties are pursuing two goals: two goals: dividing the working class and building a police state.

The attack in Aschaffenburg is the latest in a series of violent incidents in Germany, intensifying fears surrounding migration and increasing support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Two people are dead, one of them a small child. Three others are seriously injured. After the violent attack in Bavaria, the police are working to shed light on the incident. Politicians are calling for consequences.

Officials and residents have attended a solemn Mass to honor a child and a man killed in a knife attack in Germany, an assault that amplified the debate about migration ahead of the Feb. 23 general election.

A memorial service will be held in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Sunday, four days after a stabbing incident that left two people dead and three seriously injured. The ecumenical service in the Stiftskirche is scheduled to begin at 10:30 am (0930 GMT).

A memorial service has commenced in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg four days after an attack there resulted in two deaths. "Today we are full of sorrow," Aschaffenburg parish priest, Martin Heim,

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's main challenger in Germany's upcoming election plans to put proposals for a tougher migration policy to parliament.

A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed on Wednesday in a knife attack in Germany's Aschaffenburg. A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested by the police.

The deportation of the suspect in Wednesday's deadly stabbing in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg failed due to a missed deadline, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has said. Hermann said Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) rejected the Afghan national's application for asylum in June 2023 and ordered him to be deported to Bulgaria under EU migration rules.

Two people, including a 2-year-old boy, have been killed and three others were injured in a stabbing attack in Bavaria.

Germany's opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner.

Police identified the suspect as an Afghan man. Politicians gearing up for an election responded with comments about migration and law and order.