German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles besides Mike Mohring, CDU state chairman of Thuringia and top candidate of the party for the upcoming state elections, and Birgit Diezel, president of state parliament Thuringia, as she attends a celebration event of the CDU Parliamentary Group in the State Parliament Thuringia for the Day of German Unity in the state parliament building in Erfurt, Germany, September 27, 2019. Jens Meyer/Pool via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police said on Monday they were protecting the leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in the eastern state of Thuringia, which holds an election in six days, after he received a death threat that ended "Heil Hitler!".
Mike Mohring said suspected neo-Nazi extremists threatened to stab him in the neck or attack one of his rallies with a car bomb if he did not stop campaigning for the Oct. 27 regional election.
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