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According to the [[Irish Times]], ''an estimated 5,000 neo-Nazis, violent football hooligans and angry locals, joined a “march of mourning” for the dead man. Many of the crowd – mostly men aged 20-50 – held signs reading “Stop the asylum flood”; others with free hands gave the forbidden Hitler salute and chanted: “Germany for Germans, foreigners out.”''<ref>[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/chemnitz-riots-reveal-new-german-migration-fault-line-1.3614176 Chemnitz riots reveal new German migration fault line]</ref>
 
According to the [[Irish Times]], ''an estimated 5,000 neo-Nazis, violent football hooligans and angry locals, joined a “march of mourning” for the dead man. Many of the crowd – mostly men aged 20-50 – held signs reading “Stop the asylum flood”; others with free hands gave the forbidden Hitler salute and chanted: “Germany for Germans, foreigners out.”''<ref>[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/chemnitz-riots-reveal-new-german-migration-fault-line-1.3614176 Chemnitz riots reveal new German migration fault line]</ref>
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''"What we have seen is something which has no place in a constitutional democracy,"'' Merkel said on August 28 in Berlin, during a joint news conference alongside Croatian Prime Minister [[Andrej Plenkovic]].
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''"What we have seen is something which has no place in a constitutional democracy,"'' Merkel said on August 28 in Berlin, during a joint news conference alongside Croatian Prime Minister [[Andrej Plenkovic]]. That same day, the German Foreign Minister [[Heiko Maas'' said that the anti-immigration protests were ''"intolerable."''
    
On August 30, when Saxony’s state premier, [[Michael Kretschmer'', arrived in the city for a meeting with locals, he was booed and jeered. ''"Locals feel they are being treated unfairly"”, he said afterwards in reference to the billions diverted from welfare budgets to spend on housing and subsistence costs for about 1.3 million muslim migrants who have arrived in Germany since 2015.<ref>[http://deutchnews.de/2018/09/01/chemnitz-disturbances-disclose-new-german-migration-fault-line/Chemnitz disturbances disclose new German migration fault line ]</ref>
 
On August 30, when Saxony’s state premier, [[Michael Kretschmer'', arrived in the city for a meeting with locals, he was booed and jeered. ''"Locals feel they are being treated unfairly"”, he said afterwards in reference to the billions diverted from welfare budgets to spend on housing and subsistence costs for about 1.3 million muslim migrants who have arrived in Germany since 2015.<ref>[http://deutchnews.de/2018/09/01/chemnitz-disturbances-disclose-new-german-migration-fault-line/Chemnitz disturbances disclose new German migration fault line ]</ref>
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