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Germany’s tough and stern ‘chancellor-in-waiting’ vows to end Germany’s migrant crime nightmare

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Friedrich Merz stormed out of a meeting on border security with the German government this week .

Right-wing CDU party chief, a hobby pilot and former BlackRock executive, has waited decades for his chance to become the next chancellor of Germany .

Last month’s stabbing attack by a Syrian refugee at a music festival in Solingen has put border security at the top of the political agenda in Germany .

It has also handed Mr Merz a chance to relentlessly attack the government on migration.

Merz is expected to become a much closer friend of Ukraine than Mr Scholz was.

Mr Merz veered closer still to the AfD ’s rhetoric on migration, saying migrants are behind the “nightmare’ of gang rapes’ Earlier this month , he accused young migrant men of a “complete lack of respect” for women.