Barbara Ludwig

A city festival in the former East German city of Chemnitz has been changed with mourning and protests as one German citizen was reportedly stabbed to death and other two injured in what police at first described as “a dispute between several people of different nationalities.” A day later two suspects from Syria and Iraq were arrested.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned far-right protesters who were "hunting down" foreigners in street mobs following the killing of a German man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi. The far-right movement PEGIDA called for demonstrations for a second straight day after a gathering of around 800 people in the city of Chemnitz in the country's ex-communist east degenerated into violent chaos, forcing police to call in reinforcements.