Chemnitz protests: Anti-migrant demonstrations continue for third night in Germany

Chemnitz, Germany CNN — A few hundred protesters gathered Thursday evening for a nationalist rally in Chemnitz, just across the street from where local officials were meeting with community groups to discuss violent anti-migrant sentiment that flared earlier this week in the eastern German city. She also condemned the fatal stabbing, saying it was “a horrible incident.” Arrest warrant investigation A court official in Dresden admitted leaking the arrest warrant for the two suspects in the German man’s fatal stabbing that sparked the anti-immigrant protests, the state Ministry of Justice said Thursday. The group’s Facebook post promoting Thursday’s rally said: “Criminal foreigners cannot be tolerated, they need to be immediately deported and together we will explain this on Thursday to the state premier.” The AfD and the right-wing, anti-Islam Pegida group, which was founded in Saxony, have called for further protests Saturday. Separately, Saxony police said Thursday that a police employee had left the service after revelations he attended a Pegida rally on August 16 while off duty and called the police on a TV crew covering the event, labeling them as “lying press.” Ten people are being investigated over Nazi salutes, an illegal gesture in the country, during Monday’s protest in Chemnitz. There were around 1,500 counterprotesters Monday night, vastly outnumbered by the 6,000 far-right demonstrators, many of whom had traveled from other states to Chemnitz, Saxony state police said.