To someone with an interest in edged tools for most of his life, this sounds rather ironic.

German leader vows tougher knife laws and more deportations after fatal attack in Solingen
SOLINGEN – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers Monday as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people.

They;re going to blade blades in the City of Blades?