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.

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

German police say two people, including a two-year-old boy, were killed and two others were severely injured in a stabbing attack in Bavaria.

A knife attack in Aschaffenburg, Germany, involving the deaths of a child and a man, has intensified discussions about migration policies just before the national election. The suspect, a former asylum-seeker from Afghanistan,

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

Germany's main opposition leader vowed on Thursday to impose immediate border controls if he becomes chancellor, as expected, after elections next month, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for a deadly knife attack targeting children.

A memorial service was held in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg on Sunday for the victims of a knife attack in a public park that left a man and a young boy dead. "Today we are full of sorrow,