GETTY Aydan Özoguz made the comments as Germany tries to deal with the arrival of thousands of migrants

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Aydan Özoguz, the government’s Integration Commissioner, made comments calling for better integration just days after seven Syrian and Libyan refugees were arrested after trying to set a homeless man on fire. The migrants, aged between 15 and 21, were charged with attempted murder.

Aydan Özoguz, the government’s Integration Commissioner, told the Funke Media Group: “It is important that they quickly receive supportive measures and training so that they are not just hanging around doing nothing. “We all need to work as hard as we can to give them contact points in our society.”

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