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Members of the alt-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party again joined forces with conservatives in a protest march in Chemnitz on Friday August 31 that spread throughout the weekend. According to police estimates, about 6,000 supporters of the right-wing Pro Chemnitz group were at the scene, along with about 1,500 counterprotesters.
 
Members of the alt-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party again joined forces with conservatives in a protest march in Chemnitz on Friday August 31 that spread throughout the weekend. According to police estimates, about 6,000 supporters of the right-wing Pro Chemnitz group were at the scene, along with about 1,500 counterprotesters.
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Leaders of Germany's Alternative for Germany party and of populist group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West wore dark suits and held white roses as they began what they called a ''"mourning march"''. Demonstrators held up placards showing portraits of murder victims of muslim migrants. Germany's interior minister said he understood why people ''"are upset about the brutal killing"'' of a citizen for which two migrants faced charges.
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Leaders of Germany's Alternative for Germany party and of populist group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West wore dark suits and held white roses as they began what they called a ''"mourning march"''. Demonstrators held up placards showing portraits of murder victims of muslim migrants. The German interior minister [[Horst Seehofer]] defended the Chemnitz protesters by calling muslim migration ''"the mother of all problems"''.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6138537/Germanys-interior-minister-Horst-Seehofer-defends-Chemnitz-protesters.html 'Migration is the mother of all problems': Germany's interior minister defends Chemnitz protesters and says demonstrating 'doesn't make you a Nazi' as he sympathises with locals]</ref>
    
==Daniel Hillig==
 
==Daniel Hillig==
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