GERMANY - Angela Merkel has been warned she faces civil war in Germany because of the ongoing migrant crisis. Frauke Petry said the German government needs to act quickly to manage the new arrivals. The chairwoman of the populist right-wing party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) warned the crisis could escalate branding the current situation “unacceptable”.
Mrs Petry, 41, said: “We have so far not seen mass demonstrations against migrants in major German cities. But what is going on is unacceptable. We do not want a civil war in Germany. However, the majority of asylum seekers are not genuine refugees, many alleged Syrians came from other countries. If the citizens really become aware of that, their attitude to all migrants will deteriorate massively towards all real refugees. We do not want that, therefore we need to act quickly."
The AfD, initially an anti-euro party, had a meteoric rise as the party of choice for voters angry at Germany’s open door migrant policy. It surprised many by finishing second ahead of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in last week's elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which is the German leader's home state.