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| Violence in Chemnitz hits 2nd day as far-right & left rally over German man’s death (VIDEO) | |
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| Several people were injured in fresh clashes amid a far-right protest and counter-rally in the Germany city of Chemnitz on Monday. It followed hundreds of people venting their anger on Sunday over the death of a German man. | Several people were injured in fresh clashes amid a far-right protest and counter-rally in the Germany city of Chemnitz on Monday. It followed hundreds of people venting their anger on Sunday over the death of a German man. |
| According to police, people were injured on Monday evening due to fireworks and other objects being thrown around. | According to police, people were injured on Monday evening due to fireworks and other objects being thrown around. |
| The clashes were a follow-up to a mass protest on Sunday which saw far-right protesters and anti-Nazi counter-protesters hitting the streets of the eastern German city. The anger and frustration were sparked by the death of a 35-year-old German in a brawl that involved around 10 people from “various nationalities.” | The clashes were a follow-up to a mass protest on Sunday which saw far-right protesters and anti-Nazi counter-protesters hitting the streets of the eastern German city. The anger and frustration were sparked by the death of a 35-year-old German in a brawl that involved around 10 people from “various nationalities.” |
| An Iraqi and a Syrian have been arrested on suspicion of Sunday’s deadly stabbing. | An Iraqi and a Syrian have been arrested on suspicion of Sunday’s deadly stabbing. |
| The rival protests on Monday evening took place on Brueckenstrasse, the boulevard dividing the city center, and saw the opposing groups chanting “Merkel must go,” “Close the borders,” “Nazis out” and “Refugees are welcome here!” | The rival protests on Monday evening took place on Brueckenstrasse, the boulevard dividing the city center, and saw the opposing groups chanting “Merkel must go,” “Close the borders,” “Nazis out” and “Refugees are welcome here!” |
| The rally – which saw some far-right activists performing Nazi salutes – had remained relatively peaceful as the protesters initially only jeered at each other under the Karl Marx statue in the former socialist city. It started kicking off at around 9pm when demonstrators started mobilizing. Six people were reportedly injured and several detained by police in the mayhem. | The rally – which saw some far-right activists performing Nazi salutes – had remained relatively peaceful as the protesters initially only jeered at each other under the Karl Marx statue in the former socialist city. It started kicking off at around 9pm when demonstrators started mobilizing. Six people were reportedly injured and several detained by police in the mayhem. |
| Commenting on the Sunday clashes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose coalition government almost fell apart in June over her ‘open-door’ migrant policies, condemned the violence on Sunday in the eastern German city. | Commenting on the Sunday clashes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose coalition government almost fell apart in June over her ‘open-door’ migrant policies, condemned the violence on Sunday in the eastern German city. |
| “What was seen yesterday in parts of Chemnitz and what was recorded on video has no place in our country,” spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin. | “What was seen yesterday in parts of Chemnitz and what was recorded on video has no place in our country,” spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin. |
| The protest comes against a backdrop of criticism against Merkel over her ‘open door’ policy, which saw around a million undocumented refugees from Syria and Iraq allowed into Germany at the height of the migration crisis in 2015. | |
| Opposition to Merkel’s migration policy witnessed a serious boost in the aftermath of the Cologne attacks in 2016, when an estimated 1,200 women were sexually harassed or assaulted. Police said many of those responsible were of “Arab or African appearance”, noting Germany had never seen such mass sexual assaults before. | |
| Such anti-migrant sentiment spurred the growth of the right-wing and anti-immigrant movements such as PEGIDA and Alternative for Germany Party (AfD). The latter entered the national parliament for the very first time with 12.6 percent of the votes last year. | |
| While its supporters were often labelled as ‘Nazis,’ the party maintained that it had nothing to do with the far-right, stressing that the government in Berlin has ignored concerns of the population for too long. | |
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