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While POTUS denounces the witch hunt in the States, Chancellor Merkel talks about the hunting down of people during recent right-wing riots in Chemnitz. They were triggered by the death of 35-year-old Daniel H., a German, stabbed by two refugees over a dispute during a funfair.

The two suspects accused of homicide, 22-year-old Iraqi Jussif A. and 23-year-old Syrian Alaa S., are in custody, but the circumstances that led to the crime are still a mystery.

During the evenings following the homicide, a right-wing mob shouting Nazi slogans - a few showing the Hitler salute - roamed the streets of Chemnitz. Some participants started to hunt down people who looked like immigrants. Videos and eyewitnesses "confirm" those and other acts of violence.

Blankziehen or mooning the police in Chemnitz ©ARD/Morgenmagazin

Instead, Hans-Georg Maaßen, head of Germany's FBI, murmured that there was "no reliable information" that "right-wing extremist hunts" had taken place in Chemnitz and a corresponding video could be "deliberately false information." Fake news in Germany?

In principle, Maaßen followed in his appreciation his master's voice, Minister of Interior Horst Seehofer. However, the latter and other center-right politicians demand that Maaßen reveal the sources supporting his statement.

At present, waves of political anger are sweeping over Germany. The opposition parties demand the immediate dismissal of the guardian of our Grundgesetz (the German constitution). However, it possibly was easier to fire James Comey than to dismiss Hans-Georg Maaßen.

As a result of the Chemnitz riots, democratic groups are standing up to promulgate #wirsindmehr. Their slogan aims to underline that most Germans outnumber the right-wing mob. However, the fatal heart attack of a 22-year-old German following his quarrel with two Afghans at Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt two days ago will add grist* to the mills of the right-wingers.
*In German, we say, "Water to the mills."

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Is Horst Seehofer right with his statement," The migration issue is the mother of all political problems in this country"?

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