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Members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, along with other conservatives, engaged 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 Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, along with other conservatives, engaged 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.

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><ref>Hale, Virginia (September 6, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/06/german-mass-migration-mother-problems/ German Interior Minister ‘Would Have Joined’ Chemnitz Protests, Says Mass Migration ‘Mother of All Problems’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 8, 2018.</ref><ref>Kaddour, Abdelhamid (September 6, 2018). [https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/09/migration-is-the-mother-of-all-problems-says-german-interior-minister/ “Migration is the mother of all problems” says German Interior Minister]. ''Voice of Europe''. Retrieved September 8, 2018.</ref>

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>[https://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><ref>Hale, Virginia (September 6, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/06/german-mass-migration-mother-problems/ German Interior Minister ‘Would Have Joined’ Chemnitz Protests, Says Mass Migration ‘Mother of All Problems’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 8, 2018.</ref><ref>Kaddour, Abdelhamid (September 6, 2018). [https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/09/migration-is-the-mother-of-all-problems-says-german-interior-minister/ “Migration is the mother of all problems” says German Interior Minister]. ''Voice of Europe''. Retrieved September 8, 2018.</ref>

==Daniel Hillig==

==Daniel Hillig==

On Sunday August 26 at 3.15am near the 7-meter statue of Karl Marx in Chemnitz, Daniel Hillig, a local 35-year-old carpenter with a German mother and Cuban father, was attacked as he withdrew money from a bank machine and died a short time later of his stab wounds in hospital.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6120225/SUE-REID-reveals-far-Right-ruthlessly-using-five-killings-stoke-hatred-Germany.html Murders tearing Germany apart: SUE REID reveals the far Right is ruthlessly using five killings to stoke up hatred after migrants were implicated]</ref>

On Sunday August 26 at 3.15am near the 7-meter statue of Karl Marx in Chemnitz, Daniel Hillig, a local 35-year-old carpenter with a German mother and Cuban father, was attacked as he withdrew money from a bank machine and died a short time later of his stab wounds in hospital.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6120225/SUE-REID-reveals-far-Right-ruthlessly-using-five-killings-stoke-hatred-Germany.html Murders tearing Germany apart: SUE REID reveals the far Right is ruthlessly using five killings to stoke up hatred after migrants were implicated]</ref>

German police fired water cannons and used pepper spray in the city of Chemnitz on Monday August 27, during a second day of protests,<ref>Tomlinson, Chris (August 28, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/28/1000-citizens-german-city-riot-streets-following-fatal-stabbing-migrant/ 1,000 Residents of German City Riot in the Streets Following Fatal Stabbing by Migrants]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 8, 2018.</ref> as 6,000 alt-right demonstrators, with some (according to the leftist [[Cable News Network]]) chanting neo-Nazi slogans and giving Hitler salutes, as they clashed with police and counter-protesters over the fatal stabbing of Daniel Hillig.

German police fired water cannons and used pepper spray in the city of Chemnitz on Monday August 27, during a second day of protests,<ref>Tomlinson, Chris (August 28, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/28/1000-citizens-german-city-riot-streets-following-fatal-stabbing-migrant/ 1,000 Residents of German City Riot in the Streets Following Fatal Stabbing by Migrants]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 8, 2018.</ref> as 6,000 alt-right demonstrators, with some (according to the leftist [[Cable News Network]]) chanting neo-Nazi slogans and giving Hitler salutes, as they clashed with police and counter-protesters over the fatal stabbing of Daniel Hillig.