German Chancellor Angela Merkel (centre) comes out to make a statement flanked by Heidenau's mayor Juergen Opitz (second, left), Red Cross president Rudolf Seiters (right) and Saxony's State Premier Stanislaw Tillich (second, right) after a visit to a shelter for asylum-seekers in Heidenau, eastern Germany on August 26, 2015. -AFP
HEIDENAU, Germany: Far-right demonstrators booed German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she arrived Wednesday at a refugee centre hit by violent protests, in a display of anti-migrant sentiment over the record influx of asylum-seekers.
About 200 people in the eastern town of Heidenau shouted “traitor, traitor“ and “we are the mob” -- a reference to a leading German politician’s use of words to condemn the protesters.
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