FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel made an unusually strong attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday as politicians blamed each other for the violent protests that overshadowed the G20 summit in Hamburg at the weekend.
The comments come as tension mounts in Germany's ruling coalition between Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and Gabriel's Social Democrats (SPD) just over two months before a national election on Sept. 24.
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