Pressure grows on German spy chief over Chemnitz protests


  • World
  • Saturday, 08 Sep 2018

BERLIN (Reuters) - Pressure grew on Germany's domestic spy chief on Saturday after he expressed scepticism that migrants had been hounded in Chemnitz after the fatal stabbing of a German man - remarks that are reviving strains in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government.

Germany has been deeply shaken by the most violent right-wing protests in decades after the Aug. 26 killing of the German man in Chemnitz, in the eastern state of Saxony, for which two immigrants were arrested.

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