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Germany’s far-right party seizes on Berlin truck attack, says Angela Merkel ‘complicit’

 Germany’s surging far-right party has wasted no time seizing on the political impact of the country’s latest terrorist assault, moving quickly to politicize the grief and outrage after a radicalized Tunisian asylum seeker hijacked a truck and drove it into a Berlin Christmas market.

Two days after the Dec. 19 attack that left 12 dead and more than 50 injured, members of the Alternative for Germany party marched on the Chancellery to honor the victims — and to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision last year to permit roughly 1 million refugees to enter the country.

With Bach playing on loudspeakers, the demonstrators waved German flags and held up placards reading, “Merkel must go.”