(FILES) This file photo taken on December 20, 2016 shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel (foreground), German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (L) and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (2nd L) standing at a makeshift memorial for the victims of an attack oin front of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) in Berlin, where a truck crashed into a Christmas market. The German government said on December 13, 2017 it would ramp up support for relatives of victims of attacks, after facing accusations of insensitive handling of last year's Christmas market assault. Several relatives of the 12 people who were killed in the truck rampage in Berlin had vented their anger in a withering open letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel, accusing her of "political inaction" and of failing to reach out to the bereaved. / AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ