IMMIGRATION
Police brace for more far-right protests in Germany
Chemnitz, Germany — German police braced for more far-right protests against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policies in the eastern city of Chemnitz, where a fatal stabbing sparked outbreaks of racist mob violence. Saxony state police said they would be backed by reinforcements from five other states, after being heavily outnumbered by thousands of extremists in unrest on Sunday and Monday. The flashpoint city — where state premier Michael Kretschmer was to hold a town hall-style meeting on democracy while demonstrations were expected outside — has seen a violent outbreak of anger against what protesters label "criminal immigrants" since Sunday’s knife killing. Police arrested an Iraqi and a Syrian for the stabbing of a 35-year-old carpenter for a crime that set off street attacks against people whom the mob took to be foreigners. The disturbing scenes, which saw assaults against an Afghan, a Syrian and a Bulgarian man and were described as "pogrom-like" by some observers, h...
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