ANGELA Merkel has faced criticism for her awkward treatment of a young refugee girl who was brought to tears by the German chancellor’s comments on asylum.
A video of the encounter on Wednesday afternoon at a community event in Rostock showed the Palestinian teenager telling Ms Merkel that her family had been waiting four years to get permission to remain in Germany.
“It’s really unpleasant to watch others enjoy their life and not be able to enjoy it oneself,” the girl told Ms Merkel, saying she wanted to go to university.
In response, Ms Merkel told her “sometimes politics is hard” and Germany can’t accommodate everybody who wants to come.
“You know, in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon there are thousands and thousands of people.”
