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{{See also|European migrant crisis}}

{{See also|European migrant crisis}}

The city of Chemnitz became a flashpoint of [[Germany|German]] patriotic and anti-mass migration sentiment in late August 2018. Hundreds of protesters gathered in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Monday, August 27, in a second day of demonstrations after a 35-year-old local carpenter was stabbed to death on Sunday, August 26. The fatal stabbing took place during Chemnitz's local festival period. The protestors blamed Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] for giving unrestricted access to Muslim migrants, who had now murdered one of their own residents.

The city of Chemnitz became a flashpoint of [[Germany|German]] patriotic and anti-mass migration sentiment in late August 2018. Hundreds of protesters gathered in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Monday, August 27, in a second day of demonstrations after a 35-year-old local carpenter, a German of Cuban extraction,  was stabbed to death on Sunday, August 26. The fatal stabbing took place during Chemnitz's local festival period. The protestors blamed Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] for giving unrestricted access to Muslim migrants, who had now murdered one of their own residents.

Activists of the [[conservative]] [[Alternative for Germany]] (AfD) party, [[PEGIDA]], along with other patriotic conservatives, in a protest march in Chemnitz on Saturday, September 1. 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.

Activists of the [[conservative]] [[Alternative for Germany]] (AfD) party, [[PEGIDA]], along with other patriotic conservatives, in a protest march in Chemnitz on Saturday, September 1. 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.