Riots in Chemnitz 2018

There were violent riots in Chemnitz on August 26th and 27th and September 1st, 2018 after an argument on the sidelines of the Chemnitz city ​​festival (August 24th to 26th), in which one man was fatally stabbed and two others were seriously injured had been. Right -wing and right-wing extremist groups had called for demonstrations based on news about the alleged perpetrators' migration background and refugee status . As a result, organized rights and neo-Nazis attacked actual or alleged migrants, counter-demonstrators, police officers as well as representatives of the press and uninvolved passers-by, as well as allegedly attacking a Jewish restaurant. According to the assessment of many observers, the Saxon police initially underestimated the size of the demonstrations and the willingness to use violence of numerous right-wing and right-wing extremists, despite warnings from the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution , and did not deploy enough forces. In response, a free concert against right-wing extremism was organized under the motto We Are More .

The events and their assessment subsequently led to the transfer of the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, to temporary retirement .

Demonstration on August 27th in Chemnitz.

Daniel H's death

Sequence of events

Brückenstrasse in Chemnitz (2011)

On the evening of August 25, 2018, Farhad Ramazan Ahmad made an appointment with friends by cell phone in a shisha bar in Chemnitzer Brückenstraße near the Karl Marx Monument , where he uploaded a photo on Instagram around midnight that he and Alaa S. shows the third suspect and others smoking cigarettes at a small table in front of the entrance. At 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, August 26, 2018, the stalls of the Chemnitz city festival closed. Only 50 meters from the bar on the edge of the city festival, the three argued with other people over cigarettes at around 3:15 a.m., according to one witness, the wife of one of the attacked. The perpetrators seriously injured three men aged 33, 35 and 38, including stab wounds. The 35-year-old Daniel H. died shortly afterwards in hospital from his injuries.

Memorial place Daniel H. in the city center of Chemnitz (October 4, 2018)

The Chemnitz public prosecutor's office ruled out any action by the perpetrator (s) in self-defense . The Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation. Some false information was then spread on the Internet that Daniel H. had protected a German woman from sexual harassment by migrants and was therefore killed with "25 stab wounds". The MDR published just three weeks later following presentation of later dismissed from custody third suspect: The group of three asylum seekers had gone around 2:30 pm a kebab snack. They met the group of men and women around Daniel H. Farhad A. asked them to light a cigarette. The men got into an argument and he settled the argument; both groups went on. Afterwards, acquaintances of the three asylum seekers came from the kebab shop and asked about the reason for the dispute. Then Farhad A. and several of the other men went back to Daniel H.'s group. Then there was a violent argument and stabbing. He himself stood several meters away. The witness named by the lawyer essentially confirmed the description that there had been a dispute between Farhad A. and Daniel H. Then Alaa S. and two other friends from the kebab shop rushed to the action and, together with Farhad A., went to meet Daniel H. and his friends. The second suspect stood a few meters away.

Perpetrators and suspects

Alaa S.

The 23-year-old Alaa S. applied for asylum in May 2015 and, according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, received written recognition as a refugee in September 2015 ; Information about his identity and his Syrian origin was based on a self- disclosure . You are currently trying to verify the information "as part of the ongoing revocation procedure". Alaa S. was arrested on August 26th . The next day the Chemnitz District Court issued arrest warrants against him and another person who had already been released on suspicion of joint manslaughter . Alaa S.'s application for an arrest review was unsuccessful. On September 18, the public prosecutor's office announced that the urgent suspicion against him had been substantiated as witnesses recognized him as someone who was carrying a knife.

Farhad Ramazan A.

Farhad A. was born in Sêmêl in northern Iraq and lived with his two younger siblings and his Kurdish parents in Istanbul , where they emigrated soon after his birth. He led an inconspicuous life in Turkey, working in his uncle's hairdressing salon and in a bakery. He came to Germany with the refugee crisis in 2015 . It was initially housed in Freyung , then since 2016 in Chemnitz. According to the Chemnitz Administrative Court, Farhad A. applied for asylum twice. The first procedure ended on May 31, 2016 with an incontestable negative decision. On July 22, 2016, he submitted a second asylum application through a guardian; he was therefore considered a minor. On January 6, 2017, the second asylum application was rejected by the BAMF and deportation to Iraq was threatened. Farhad A. filed a lawsuit against the decision on February 8, 2017 at the Administrative Court in Chemnitz, which was decided on October 9, 2018. It is unclear why the BAMF even accepted a second asylum application. A spokesman for the administrative court explained that there must be a new state of affairs and new evidence.

His police file revealed numerous crimes, starting around ten months after his arrival in Germany, including assault , drug trafficking , theft , trespassing , property damage , insulting , threatening and resisting law enforcement officers . As early as February 2017, he is said to have stabbed the employee of a snack bar with a knife because nobody there had a cigarette for him. In April and September 2017 he was fined for trespassing and theft, in November 2017 and February 2018 he was sentenced to probation for violating the Narcotics Act and bodily harm.

A witness, who was also temporarily suspect, told the police that Farhad R. had admitted to having stabbed him with a knife. According to the prosecutor, Farhad R. probably fled abroad on August 30, 2018. Eight days after the act, on September 4, 2018, the Chemnitz District Court issued an arrest warrant for joint manslaughter against him. The police in Saxony published a mug shot through the media. The description as a 22 year old contradicts the asylum application as a minor.

Second suspect

A 22-year-old alleged Iraqi was taken into custody with Alaa S., from which he was released after three weeks on a complaint from his lawyer. According to the prosecutor, no witness has seen him carrying a knife, and no traces of him have been found on the alleged murder weapon found so far. However, the investigation continues against him.

Crime victim

Immediately after the crime, an obituary for the victim was published on Facebook by his training center in full name; he had successfully completed a carpenter's apprenticeship with a journeyman's piece with distinction and left behind a wife and her 7-year-old son at the time of the crime, whom he had also raised. Relatives, family and friends repeatedly spoke out against any political instrumentalisation by extremists.

According to the magazine Cicero , the killed Daniel H., whose father was Cuban, was discriminated against as the " Negi " and was the target of right-wing violence for years because of his skin color alone. This is "not without bitter irony, " said Cicero , who quotes a friend's Facebook entry, according to which Daniel H's death was merely instrumentalized by the right; The real goal was Chancellor Merkel's refugee policy. The lyricist and essayist Max Czollek commented: “As if by the way, the right-wing parties clarify the question of when a hyphenated German actually belongs to Germany. Answer: When you are killed by an Iraqi and a Syrian. It's good that there is now clarity. "

A colleague of Daniel H. and his brother were injured by stab wounds or violence.

Published arrest warrant

On August 29, 2018, the arrest warrant against the released 22-year-old Iraqi, which lists the full names of witnesses and the two alleged perpetrators as well as the number of knife stabs on Daniel H., was illegally published on the Internet and circulated.

Versions with blackening were distributed among others by Pegida co- founder Lutz Bachmann , an AfD district association and the alliance “Pro Chemnitz”. A police spokeswoman confirmed the authenticity of the document. The Dresden public prosecutor's office thereupon initiated an investigation into the initial suspicion of a breach of official confidentiality . Photos were published on a well-known right-wing extremist website that allegedly show one of the alleged perpetrators. According to Spiegel reports, they were "spread by right-wing but also left-wing politicians and celebrities".

On August 29, 2018, the Bremen public prosecutor's office had the apartment of Jan Timke , who sits in the Bremen citizenship for the right-wing populist voter association Bürger in Anger . The state politician is suspected of having spread the arrest warrant on Facebook. The day after, Timke confirmed the allegation. He publicly assumed responsibility for the crime and assured the law enforcement authorities of his cooperation. The arrest warrant was also distributed by the Berlin AfD member of the state parliament Ronald Gläser and the Bavarian AfD member of the Bundestag Stephan Protschka . The latter even did this without any blackening . The public prosecutor's office initiated a preliminary investigation.

Said arrest warrant was photographed and passed on by a Dresden correctional officer Daniel Z. After the latter had turned himself in on August 30th due to the great pressure of a wanted man, he was suspended from duty with immediate effect. It was mainly determined in the vicinity of the Dresden prison . Z. himself stated that he wanted to clarify the course of events and prevent alleged attempts at manipulation in the media. However, the descriptions in the arrest warrant were initial findings by the police, but not a completed investigation. Z. also belongs to a group of judicial officers who are being investigated in the Dresden JVA for the mistreatment of non-German prisoners.

Lawyers warned that proceedings against the suspect could break because the process massively violated his personal rights. According to Klaus Bartl , the legal policy spokesman for the Left in Saxony , the address of the suspect is given in the document. As a result, whoever published this document risked attacks on the health and lives of bystanders.

After the arrest warrant was seen on the Facebook page of the Göttingen District Association of Republicans , the Göttingen public prosecutor's office is also investigating. In May 2019, a police officer from the Zollernalb district was sentenced to a fine of 1200 euros for having distributed the arrest warrant on Facebook.

Criminal proceedings

In January 2019, Alaa S. was charged with collective manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm . Together with Farhad Ramazan A., he stabbed the victim “with a knife he was carrying, consciously and deliberately without justification”. The main hearing against Alaa S. began on March 18, 2019. For security reasons and because of great public interest, the main hearing took place in a building of the Dresden Higher Regional Court .

In the main hearing on March 18, 2019, the witness Dimitri M., who had been injured by knife stabs in the back in the act, could not identify Alaa S. as the perpetrator in the photos. However, he identified two other people who are said to be involved in the crime. He described the murder weapon as a knife with a blade about 15 cm long; previously he had testified to the police that he had not seen a knife. The witness was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time of the crime. The main witness, on the other hand, clearly identified Alaa S. in photos and claimed to have observed the defendant stabbing the victim from a distance of about fifty meters; but he did not see a knife. According to the prosecution, acquaintances of Alaa S. had tried in the meantime to intimidate the witness through threats and violence and to get him to withdraw his testimony.

On August 22, 2019, Alaa S. was sentenced to nine and a half years imprisonment by the Chemnitz Regional Court for manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm. The public prosecutor's office had demanded ten years imprisonment, while the defense requested an acquittal. The judgment is final after the since April 15, 2020 Federal Court the revision had rejected the accused. The verdict was criticized in various journalistic comments; in particular, insufficient evidence was pointed out. Thomas Fischer, in turn, rejected this criticism as unfounded.

Demonstrations and counter protests

Fueled by rumors and false reports in social networks, right-wing extremist hooligans organized viral demonstrations against “ foreign crime” on the evening of the day and on the following Monday . This resulted in xenophobic and anti-Semitic riots up to and including attacks against foreign-looking passers-by, counter-demonstrators and police officers, with the Hitler salute also being shown, for which investigative proceedings were opened in ten cases. At the end of the second day of the demonstration, the Chemnitz police spoke of 20 injured, including two police officers and four participants from the right-wing rally. The police produced a total of 43 criminal charges, which were directed against participants in the right-wing demonstration as well as the left-wing counter-demonstration and which included breaches of the peace, bodily harm, violations of the assembly law by masking and the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations . According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, a total of 120 preliminary proceedings existed after the first two days of the demonstration (as of September 7, 2018).

One of the demonstrators, who had shown the Hitler salute, declared in court that he “actually feels [...] more at home on the left spectrum”. The heavily alcoholic , multiple criminal record had a tattooed Antifa symbol on his body and a tattoo of the Red Army Faction on his hand. After some media initially assumed a photo forgery of the RAF tattoo, they later confirmed its authenticity. He was sentenced by the Chemnitz District Court to seven months in prison and 100 hours of community service with probation in view of the impending detox.

A banner used by right-wing extremist demonstrators carried the inscription "We are BUNTED until the blood splatters" and photographs of women giving the impression that these women had been victims of violence by refugees. The research platform Mimikama investigated the origin of the photos and found that they come from abroad and that some are of unclear origin. One person is a makeup actress. The images have nothing to do with supposed violence by migrants, but according to Mimikama, they have long been used by rights activists to create a mood.

26th of August

On August 26, right-wing groups began to mobilize nationwide. In addition to Facebook , messenger services such as Threema and Telegram were also used - which were supposedly bug-proof . According to the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, the Identitarian Movement mobilized via Discord .

Rumors spread via social media that the alleged cause of the dispute was sexual harassment . The police denied this representation as not covered by the previous investigations. The death of another person injured in the incident was also temporarily reported on August 26th. Various such false reports were also spread by the local tabloid press - namely the Internet service tag24.de of the Chemnitzer Morgenpost .

At noon wrote AFD - German MP Markus Glad Maier on Twitter that it was now " civic duty that todbringendendie [sic], 'to stop knife migration."

On the afternoon of August 26, 2018, two right-wing demonstrations took place in Chemnitz: An AfD demonstration with a hundred participants remained peaceful, according to the police. On another, called for by Kaotic Chemnitz , a group of right-wing extremist hooligans , around 800 demonstrators gathered at the central Karl Marx Monument and marched through the city center. The hooligans shouted slogans such as "We are the warriors, we are the fans, Adolf Hitler, hooligans". According to an assessment by the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution , up to 50 people from Berlin (right-wing extremists, hooligans and Reich citizens of the “stateless” group) had traveled to Chemnitz for the march. As a result of this demonstration, as video recordings show, police officers were attacked and thrown to the ground. In addition, many participants broke away from the demonstration and pursued people fleeing from the demonstration under racist abuse, who they believed were migrants. Thirty criminal cases for assault have been opened, and another thirty for the use of marks of unconstitutional organizations . The city festival was canceled prematurely due to the announcement of the demonstration. During the demonstration on August 26, the police confirmed four reports.

In the national and international media there was talk of a " hunt ". The editors of the Chemnitz-based daily newspaper Freie Presse , on the other hand, deliberately avoided this term in their reporting, since the "hatred that has come to light" in protests does not need any further "dramatization". In addition, they do not know of any video documenting a hunt, and only know that, according to several advertisements, there were attacks on migrants after the demonstration. The RAA Sachsen reported, with reference to a high number of unreported cases of thirty attacks on people in Chemnitz in the days around the demonstration, on August 26 alone six racially motivated attacks were reported, including five physical injuries. The statement by the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, in a government statement that there had been "no mob , [...] no hunt, [...] no pogrom ", met with massive criticism in view of the numerous indications to the contrary of such incidents. The deputy government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer replied that there was “nothing to downplay” after “the riots in Chemnitz”, film recordings showed that people of foreign origin had been pursued and that journalists had been threatened. Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the riots several times and referred to the pictures that had "very clearly shown hatred and thus also the persecution of innocent people".

August 27

The meetings on August 27, 2018 were registered by the right-wing populist citizens' movement Pro Chemnitz and the counter-demonstration by the Die Linke party . They mobilized around 6,000 and 1,500 people respectively. As reported, numerous right-wing extremists from various federal states took part in the demonstration by “Pro Chemnitz” , including members of the NPD youth organization and well-known representatives of the neo-Nazi parties Der III. Way and The Right . The comradeship scene , Pegida and the Identitarian Movement had also mobilized . In a speech, Martin Kohlmann from Pro Chemnitz expressed doubts as to whether the integration of immigrants was even possible: "You cannot integrate a fox into the chicken coop". He demanded that all foreigners who would not “adhere to our rules” have to leave the country, and at the same time polemicized against German “elites”. On Facebook, the AfD members of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, Stefan Räpple and Hans-Peter Stauch , boasted that they went to Chemnitz and took part in the demonstration. Both also published photos of their participation on Twitter and wrote, among other things. a .: "In case I should be asked later where I was on August 27, 2018, when the mood in #Germany turned: Yes, I was in #Chemnitz!" The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution spoke of an "obvious solidarity " Right-wing extremists with the AfD in the so-called funeral march: "The ideological boundaries between the traditional right-wing extremist spectrum and the anti-Muslim scene were at least temporarily overcome in Chemnitz."

The Chemnitz Police Department was supported by the Saxon riot police and shielded the two demonstration trains with almost 600 officers from each other. The comparatively small number of emergency services was justified by the registered number of demonstrators, which would have been 1,500 for both demonstrations. On departure, a group of right-wing members were attacked by left-wing counter-demonstrators. Participants in the counter-demonstration reported hunting scenes by right-wing extremists on counter-demonstrators and journalists. The Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer offered the Saxon state police support from the federal police in the future .

29th August

The chairmen of the AfD regional associations of Saxony , Thuringia and Brandenburg together with the xenophobic Pegida called for a "silent march" on September 1st in Chemnitz. This is intended to commemorate the “victims of illegal migration policy”. On the same day, the Free State of Saxony requested the help of the federal police . According to the Chemnitz Police Department, support was already in action the next day at the “Saxony Talks” with Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) and Chemnitz Mayor Barbara Ludwig . Riot police from Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt , Bavaria , Berlin , Hesse and Thuringia were also called in as reinforcements .

August 30th

Prime Minister Kretschmer visited Chemnitz with his cabinet colleagues. The date for this event, which took place in the stadium on Gellertstrasse together with Mayor Barbara Ludwig (SPD) and around 500 listeners, was already set in spring 2018 and was part of the "Saxony Talks" that had been held since the beginning of 2018 in all districts and large Cities of the Free State. At the same time, “ Pro Chemnitz ” again called for a demonstration. Around 1,000 participants, including right-wing extremists, demonstrated against Kretschmer in front of the stadium. The police were involved with a total of more than 1,200 emergency services, including ten hundreds, including the Federal Police and around 60 police officers from Hesse .

September 1

The day before, the police and the DFL informed about the cancellation of the Dresden game of the 2nd Bundesliga by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior , as the police forces planned for Dresden were not available due to demonstrations in Chemnitz. The Saxon police was in Chemnitz by task forces of police of North Rhine-Westphalia supports that therefore planned demonstrations at the Essen North Rhine-Westphalia Day canceled, two trains a hundred of the Support Command of the riot police Nuremberg , an arrest unit (BFE) of the Police Mecklenburg -Vorpommern as well as forces from Baden-Württemberg , Brandenburg , Bremen , Hesse , Lower Saxony , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt supported. In total, more than 2000 officials from various federal states and the federal government were on duty.

Banners at the Karl Marx Monument: "Chemnitz is neither gray nor brown"

On September 1st, an alliance of Chemnitz citizens, entrepreneurs and scientists started the campaign “Chemnitz is neither gray nor brown” with large advertisements in the media and posters in the city.

A total of four demonstrations were registered for this day in Chemnitz:

• a demonstration by the Chemnitz peace groups on the World Day of Peace at the Red Tower , registered for 100 participants
• the stationary rally of the alliance Chemnitz Nazi-free under the motto "Heart instead of agitation" at the Johanniskirche , to which various parties, associations, urban groups, companies and individuals had called.
  Federal politicians such as the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), the chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group Dietmar Bartsch and the federal chairwoman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Annalena Baerbock also took part, and the punk rock and electro punk bands Madsen and Egotronic also played ; around 1,000 participants were registered. According to official information, around 3,500 people took part.

• a demonstration by the voters ' association “ Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz ” registered for approx. 1000 participants .
  According to the police, the demonstration, which was registered from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., was already broken up by the organizers at 4:40 p.m. without any significant incidents, and after police observations, the participants largely joined the demonstration by AfD and Pegida, which was registered for 5 p.m.
• a "silent march" registered by Pegida , AfD Saxony , AfD Brandenburg and AfD Thuringia for 500 to 1,000 participants under the motto "We will not forget".
  The organizers had asked to refrain from carrying posters in addition to German flags. Ultimately, the so-called “funeral march” was led by participants with large-format photos of victims of homicides in recent years, which was massively criticized by relatives of one of those killed as “instrumentalization ... for agitation, racism and hatred” and “perverse distortion” of their lives. The Thuringian AfD parliamentary group chairman Björn Höcke also performed and sang the national anthem with the rally participants . The demonstration was led by Uwe Junge (MdL, AfD Rhineland-Palatinate ), Andreas Kalbitz (AfD Brandenburg, member of the federal executive committee), Björn Höcke ( AfD chairman Thuringia ) and from the leadership of Pegida u. a. Lutz Bachmann and Siegfried Däbritz . In addition, there were numerous prominent right-wing populists and right-wing extremists such as Martin Sellner (leading actor of the Identitarian Movement ), Maik Arnold (leader of the " National Socialists Chemnitz " until they were banned ), Christian Fischer (one of the heads of the forbidden home-loyal German youth ), Götz Kubitschek ( New Right activist ), Michael Stürzenberger ( Islamophobic activist) and Yves Rahmel (right-wing extremist music distributor and organizer) among the participants. Michael Nattke, right-wing extremism expert at the Kulturbüro Sachsen, saw the demonstration as a “Who's Who of the neo-Nazi scene” beyond Saxony. During the rally, at which " We are the people ", " Lies press " and "Resistance" were shouted, there were also fights - especially after the dissolution. According to the city of Chemnitz, around 4,500 participants took part in the right-wing populist demonstrations. Since the authorized demonstration was initially blocked by counter-demonstrators, so that the demonstration time had expired, it was broken up by the demonstration management after a police request. As the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia announced on September 6, 2018, the open cooperation of the AfD Thuringia with right-wing extremists during this "silent march" was one of the reasons to check whether the AfD Thuringia should be observed.

The police initially spoke of 9,500 participants in all the Chemnitz demonstrations that day and later corrected this number to 11,000 people. A total of 37 criminal charges were received, the majority of which were bodily harm, property damage and criminal offenses under the Assembly Act . On the following day of the events, the police were aware of 18 injured people, including three police officers. There was another hunt for refugees, an Afghan who had been beaten up by masked people had to be taken to the emergency room of a hospital.

A group of Social Democrats in the vicinity of the Bundestag member Sören Bartol was physically attacked on the way to the bus, the victims described the perpetrators as right-wing extremists with batons. The police intervened; Bartol himself was not attacked personally.

Reporting on the registered right-wing rallies and the events on the fringes were dangerous for journalists. Right-wing rally participants repeatedly attacked reporters, photographers and camera teams from among the crowd; Demonstrators verbally attacked media representatives as "lying press" and equipment was destroyed. Some editors-in-chief therefore raised serious allegations against the police deployed; one has "never experienced so much hatred of the media". The Saxon state association of the journalists' union DJV asked its members concerned to report the matter. Occasionally, however, there were also praise from reporters for the police work. The police later asked media representatives who were disabled in their work to come forward.

September 2nd

On the Neumarkt in Chemnitz, a private person organized a rally under the motto “Chemnitz citizens set a democratic signal against violence and xenophobia”. Around 500 participants were registered for this. A rally of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chemnitz took place on Neumarkt near the St. Jakobi town church . Around 1000 people gathered there under the motto "We in Chemnitz - listen to one another, act with one another". The participants included Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer and Regional Bishop Carsten Rentzing .

September 3

See also : Rock gegen Rechts # Chemnitz 2018

Logo of WirSindMore on Twitter

Visitors to the concert We are more

A free concert against the right , initiated by the Chemnitz band Kraftklub under the motto or hashtag #wirsindmehr, took place in downtown Chemnitz. The event was supported by the city marketing of Chemnitz and featured performances by artists such as Casper , Die Toten Hosen , Feine Sahne Fischfilet , KIZ , Marteria , Nura and Trettmann . The concert had to be moved from the originally planned location at the Karl Marx Monument on Brückenstraße to the car park at Johanniskirche . Instead, a DJ set from the Berlin club About Blank was set up at the monument . The concert was attended by around 65,000 spectators who had come from all over Germany. A counter-demonstration by the Thügida association and the Pro Chemnitz citizens' movement right next to the concert area under the motto “Against anti-German commercial baiting ” was prohibited by the city administration on the grounds that the event area was already occupied. The administrative court in Chemnitz , which the applicants called on, emphasized in its ruling that the concert according to Art.13 was not only due to the “political message that should be conveyed through the concert”, but also “[a] due to the non-commercial performance of the artists”. 8 GG falls under the protection of freedom of assembly .

Poster of the cultural alliance “Hand in Hand” on a high-rise

CDU General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer commented on the performance of the punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet in the newspaper Die Welt : “What we want is to protect our democracy and our constitutional state against the law. And if you do that with those from the left, who verbally beat police officers in exactly the same way [...], then I consider that to be more than critical. "

Michael Kretschmer , who called the Kraftklub an “impossible left band” months ago, thanked her for her commitment.

According to an evaluation by the microblogging service Twitter , #WirSindMehr was the most popular German debate hashtag of 2018.

5th September

Civil rights activists and GDR opposition activists formulated the declaration on Chemnitz , an appeal signed by over 100 supporters not to exploit the murder of Daniel H. politically and not to abuse slogans of the GDR citizens' movement. The authors of the declaration were Stephan Bickhardt , Almut Ilsen and Rüdiger Rosenthal . The text was published on the website of the Robert Havemann Society . In their statement, they emphasized that some protesters from Pegida , AfD and the Pro Chemnitz citizens' movement refer to the civil rights movement of the GDR and the quote from Bärbel Bohley “We wanted justice and got the rule of law”. The authors of the declaration take up the quote and derive their appeal from it. In addition, the authors of the declaration call for those who instrumentalize the murder for sedition, calls for violence and anti-constitutional activities to be indicted. Explicitly excluded from their criticism are, according to the wording of the authors, "the vast majority of the peacefully grieving and partly rightly angry citizens of Saxony about the failings of politics".

Other civil rights groups picked up and circulated the statement. Church institutions also published articles on the declaration. In an interview with Der Spiegel, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk criticized the declaration because, as a “consensus paper”, it was “based on commonplace” and gave the impression that it only wanted to “save the legacy of civil rights activists”. The declaration was also widely discussed in the rest of the press. The Federal Foundation for Processing welcomed the declaration. In the years that followed, civil rights activists continued to complain primarily about the abuse of civil rights activist slogans for right-wing propaganda.

7th of September

On that day, two large demonstrations were registered again and the police with around 1,300 emergency services (11 hundreds), including equestrian squadrons, helicopters and water cannons, were involved. The rally of the “AG Migration and Diversity” of the SPD Saxony and the Chemnitz Theater offered a free open-air classical music concert under the motto “Stronger together - culture for openness and diversity”. Around 500 musicians performed, including soloists, choirs from the Chemnitz Opera , the Robert Schumann Philharmonic, the Singakademie Chemnitz, the university choir of the Technical University of Chemnitz and members of various national choirs. About 5,000 visitors saw the concert and made donations, some of which went to the relatives of the victim and some to the alliance Chemnitz nazifrei and the victim counseling RAA Sachsen .

At the same time, around 2,350 people gathered for a right-wing extremist march of the Pro Chemnitz citizens' movement , 1,000 participants were registered. Among the participants in the demonstration were again numerous right-wing extremists and hooligans, including the long-time neo-Nazi functionaries Christian Worch and Dieter Riefling .

According to police estimates, around 1,000 people attended counter-protests. Officials from seven federal states were on duty to separate the demonstrators; the rallies went almost smoothly. The organizers of the counter rally expressed their incomprehension that the city and the police had approved the right-wing demonstration again. “Pro Chemnitz”, the AfD and the Pegida are not about the killed Daniel H., “but about building a fascist mass movement”.

13.september

Art action in front of the Karl Marx Monument with wolf sculptures

The Brandenburg sculptor Rainer Opolka organized a one-day art campaign against agitation and violence in Chemnitz on September 13, 2018 at the Karl Marx Monument with ten bronze wolves. Some of the animal sculptures showed the Hitler salute , others represented followers. This action was flanked by signs with sentences such as “Where there is hunted, there will be kicked later!” And “Mr. Maassen and Mr. Seehofer: Right-wing radicalism is the mother of all problems”.

September 14th

A week after September 7th there was another demonstration by the Pro Chemnitz movement , in which, according to police, around 3500 people took part. This significantly increased the number of participants in the Pro Chemnitz event compared to the previous week. In the meantime, in Koethen (Saxony-Anhalt), a German was injured during an argument with Afghans and later died of heart failure , which the speaker Martin Kohlmann discussed.

According to the police, 18 crimes were reported at the gathering. Participants in the assembly carried quartz sand gloves , masking objects or other protective armament with them. A 26-year-old man wore a necklace with a swastika charm , which led to charges being made for using marks from unconstitutional organizations . Another participant is said to have shown the Hitler salute and thus also violated Section 86a of the Criminal Code . The police were on duty with 900 officers.

More crimes

Attack on a Jewish restaurant

It was only two weeks after the rioting began that it became known to a wider public that allegedly neo-Nazis had attacked the only kosher restaurant in Saxony and its owner Uwe Dziuballa on the second day of the demonstrations, August 27 . The Ministry of the Interior stated that “a politically motivated act with an anti-Semitic background is currently obvious”, but investigations have not yet been completed.

According to his own account, Dziuballa had been attacked by a dozen black hooded people in front of the restaurant with stones, bottles and an iron bar at around 9:40 pm, shortly after the end of a lecture on the “ Aryanization ” of Jewish companies during the Nazi era . On the day of rest, the restaurant was empty except for two guests. His shoulder was injured and the window pane and facade were damaged. The attackers shouted: " Jewish pig , get out of Germany". After his emergency call, riot police were on the spot within a few minutes. The Schalom in Heinrich-Zille-Straße, also the seat of the Shalom e. V. - German-Israeli-Jewish meeting place in Chemnitz , has been the target of anti-Semitic attacks, graffiti and harassment since it opened in 2000 . In 2012, Dziuballa had already reported regular attacks, errors in the preservation of evidence by the police and the request of the public prosecutor's office to withdraw a complaint (originally filed by an MDR camera team) for showing the Hitler salute .

In his government declaration before the state parliament in Dresden , in which he received more than a week after the attack on the riots in Chemnitz and their echo across Germany, the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer had not addressed this attack.

The damage to the bar was only recorded and registered ten days after the crime. Until then, the criminal police and the Ministry of the Interior had only assumed "attempted damage to property". Dziuballa then wrote a letter to Prime Minister Kretschmer. The Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism (JFDA) criticized the actions of the Saxon authorities in this "huge case of anti-Semitism". It was "monstrous that a hooded mob attacked the only Jewish restaurant in Chemnitz, shouted anti-Semitic slogans and the public only found out about the case days later".

Dziuballa explained in the Jüdische Allgemeine : “It has been simmering for a long time, since 2015”, which is why he was surprised that politicians in Saxony were now “amazed” about the escalating violence and that the death of a young man was being exploited by the right.

The Saxon Ministry of the Interior is assuming a politically motivated act with an anti-Semitic background, which is why the police terrorism and extremism defense center was turned on.

Suspicion of terrorism against right-wing extremist group "Revolution Chemnitz"

Following a rally by Pro Chemnitz on September 14, 2018 on the Schloßteichinsel, a group of at least 15 people who described themselves as " vigilantes " and "supporters of the police" demanded ID cards from a birthday society made up of young people from Germany Police alerted. Then the group went to another group of seven Germans, Iranians and Pakistanis and cursed them with xenophobia. An Iranian was injured in the head with a glass bottle and suffered a laceration. 15 suspects were arrested, and an arrest warrant was issued against 6 of them: They are accused of dangerous bodily harm in unity with a breach of the peace. The homes of everyone in this group were later searched. Subsequently, the terrorism and extremism defense center of the Saxon police took over the investigation.

On October 1, 2018, seven men from Chemnitz were arrested in connection with this incident in Saxony and Bavaria on the instructions of the federal prosecutor's office on suspicion of forming a right-wing terrorist organization . Together with 31-year-old Christian K., who has been in custody since the incidents on Schloßteichinsel and is considered the leading figure of the group, they are said to have founded an association called “ Revolution Chemnitz ”, which planned armed attacks on foreigners and those who think differently from politics would have. Some of the information about the group comes from a decrypted group internet chat. An unspecified action by the group is said to have been planned for October 3rd, the day of German unity , for which the raids on the island were described as a "test run". In addition, according to the investigators, the group had intensively looked into the procurement of semi-automatic firearms , etc. a. a Heckler & Koch MP5 . According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, police investigators feared that these self-styled “revolutionaries” (who in their chat boastfully called the NSU , with which they compared themselves, a “kindergarten preschool group” ) acted together with other right-wing terrorist groups. The political scientist and right-wing extremism expert Hajo Funke told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that there had been a "terror-related network" in Chemnitz for more than 20 years. It was not without reason that the main NSU perpetrators, Uwe Mundlos , Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe , first went to Chemnitz when they went into hiding. Over 100 officers from the Saxon police were involved in the operation on October 1st. Five of those arrested were involved in the attacks on Schloßteichinsel on September 14th. Pre-trial detention was ordered for all eight suspects.

Further investigation

Around 15 months after the attack on the Jewish restaurant Schalom, the police have identified a suspect in Lower Saxony. According to the State Criminal Police Office, the authorities have so far identified 78 suspects “in the immediate temporal and local context of the demonstration”. Charges have been brought against 19 of them or penalties have been applied for.

Reactions

Parties and Organizations in Germany

Saxon state government

Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer announced in a statement tougher action against extremist criminals, called the Saxon state “capable of acting” and emphasized the state's monopoly of force. He called the political instrumentalization by right-wing extremists "abhorrent". At the same time, he contradicted Chancellor Merkel in a government statement in the Saxon state parliament and said, in essence, that there had been no mob, no hunted down and no pogroms. Martin Dulig , Kretschmer's coalition partner of the SPD and deputy prime minister, said in an interview with sternTV : “It happened, it was real. And it's oppressive because you can really see how much agitation there is and how hate turns into violence. "

Federal government

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) announced that she wanted to visit Chemnitz. She accepted an invitation from Lord Mayor Barbara Ludwig . Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey (SPD), the only East German Federal Minister , came to Chemnitz on August 31, 2018. At the memorial for the killed Daniel H. she laid flowers and then spoke to representatives of democracy-promoting groups in the city. She was the first politician from the federal cabinet to visit the city after the riots. In view of the xenophobic demonstrations, Giffey called for a law to promote democracy. The law should make it clear that it is “also the task of the state” to “organize the democratic education of young people at all levels”, said Giffey.

A statement by the incumbent Interior Minister Horst Seehofer ( CSU ), who is said to have fallen on September 5 among the CSU members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag , met with a high response in the media : "The migration issue is the mother of all political problems." Seehofer did not deny the sentence and stated in an interview with the Rheinische Post on September 6th that he was upset by the killing offense in Chemnitz and that he would “have taken to the streets as a citizen” - “of course not with radicals”. Leading politicians from the CDU, SPD, Greens and the Left condemned Seehofer's statements. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that there were “also problems” in connection with immigration, but also successes. However, Seehofer received approval from the AfD chairman Alexander Gauland .

AfD

While politicians from all the other parties represented in the Bundestag condemned the riots, AfD chairman Alexander Gauland defended the riots: "When such a killing act happens, it is normal for people to freak out." In the opinion of Der Spiegel , the AfD wanted to act as an "advocate for the 'Citizen protests' against a one-sided media landscape ”. In addition, Gauland appealed to Wolfgang Kubicki , the deputy federal chairman of the FDP and Bundestag Vice President, who made Chancellor Angela Merkel jointly responsible for the incidents in Chemnitz, saying: “The roots of the riots lie in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ' We can do it '. "Following on from this, Gauland said that if someone like FDP Vice-Chief Kubicki made the Chancellor and her refugee policy jointly responsible for these protests," then the Saxons and the people of Chemnitz also have the right to see it that way ". Hansjörg Müller , the parliamentary leader of the AfD parliamentary group , attested Der Spiegel the attempt to reinterpret the political background of the riots. Müller wrote that he was "proud of the citizen protests" in Chemnitz. Anyone who participates in the “ genocide against us Germans” is an “incorrigible, deluded anti-German racist”, and whoever defends himself like the “ordinary middle-class citizens in Chemnitz” is a “democrat and defender of human values”.

Within the AfD, however, there was also criticism of the joint appearance of AfD politicians with right-wing extremists at the demonstrations. The chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in Hamburg's citizenship, Jörn Kruse , announced on September 27, 2018, in protest against the fact that the leadership of the party at the federal level had not resolutely distanced itself from any cooperation with right-wing extremist networks, that he would resign and leave the party :

"In addition to radical right-wing failures by individuals, which (if you are willing) could still be classified as a psychopathic phenomenon, it is above all the quasi-non-reaction of the federal leadership that broke the barrel for me."

Further comments

Josef Schuster , President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , was dismayed that "an alarming number of people" had no inhibitions "on the basis of rumors downright hunting certain groups and calling for vigilante justice" and expressed his incomprehension that the police in Chemnitz "apparently not properly prepared on Monday". Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier ( CDU ) took the same view : "On the first day you may still be surprised - not on the second day."

In a radio report by MDR Kultur, cultural workers, representatives of the Technical University and local politicians in Chemnitz were appalled by the damage that the events of the previous days had done to the image of the city of Chemnitz. "The damage to Chemnitz, the culture, the economy and democracy is huge," said the city's business development agency. The plans to become European Capital of Culture in 2025 had suffered a serious setback.

The Chemnitzer FC distanced itself officially of hooligans as the Kaotic Chemnitz; Before a soccer game he appeared with labels such as tolerance, cosmopolitanism and fairness or Chemnitz is neither gray nor brown on T-shirts and the team bus. The right-wing extremist group has also been subject to a stadium ban on home and away games since 2012 .

foreign countries

The riots were noticed in many countries around the world. The then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Seid al-Hussein , denounced the attacks by right-wing demonstrators in Chemnitz on foreign passers-by: “To see what happened in Saxony is really shocking.” The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs has, on the basis of the Riots added to his travel advice for Germany: "Be careful in the vicinity of demonstrations, as riots are possible." The Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ( ÖVP ) tweeted that he was "shocked by the neo-Nazi riots", that they were "on." to condemn the strongest ”. Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache from the right-wing populist FPÖ, on the other hand, shared a post on his private Facebook page in the weekly newspaper Wochenblick , which was classified as extremely right-wing and was entitled "Chemnitz: The bloodbath shocked and not the protests" and which spoke of "allegedly 'Right-wing extremist' demos ”, which are only classified as such by the“ mainstream ”and are in reality“ spontaneous demos of appalled citizens ”against“ rampant violence by immigrants ”. Vice Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini from the right-wing populist Lega Nord said in an interview with DW about the riots in Chemnitz: “I can remember what happened that New Year's Eve in Cologne and other places. [...] But the German government underestimated the problem for years. The rise of the 'Alternative for Germany' is a clear reaction to this. ”But he also emphasized that violence could never be a solution.

Controversy over statements by the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Maaßen

Accusation of targeted misinformation

The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Hans-Georg Maaßen , expressed doubts in an interview with the Bild newspaper that was disseminated on September 7, 2018 , that there had been hunts for foreign-looking people during the demonstrations in Chemnitz . The Office for the Protection of the Constitution had "no reliable information about the fact that such hunts took place". The online magazine ze.tt countered this representation with different eyewitness reports and statements by the injured parties, as well as a confirmation from the Saxon attorney general; An edition of the fact finder also found that there was no evidence of a forgery. Maaßen also alleged that "there is no evidence that the video circulating on the Internet about this alleged incident is authentic" and stated that his "cautious assessment has good reasons" to suggest that it is "targeted." False information ”acted“ to possibly distract the public from the murder in Chemnitz ”, since Antifa Zeckenbiss published the video on Twitter with the accompanying text“ Manhunt ”by“ Nazi Hools ”. The person allegedly persecuted who can be seen in this video has filed a complaint against the persecutors.

Maassen's statements met with sharp criticism, as the recordings, which became known as Hasi videos, showed several people in Chemnitz rushing towards two young asylum seekers from Afghanistan, who then flee. Apart from the AfD, various representatives of the parties represented in the Bundestag demanded evidence of Maassen's claim. The use of the word "murder" was also criticized, as Maassen anticipated the investigation and possible prosecution. The responsible public prosecutor's office has so far assessed the crime as joint manslaughter and not as murder . The Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office also expressly contradicted Maaßen. They have "no evidence that the video could be a fake", so it is also used for investigations.

Discussion in federal and state politics

Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) initially expressed his “full confidence” after Maassen's statements and stated that his level of information was identical to that of Maaßen. Chancellor Angela Merkel and the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution stated that they were completely surprised by Maassen's statements and had not been informed in advance. Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) expressed his irritation that Maaßen was expressing such suspicions without providing any evidence, and questioned his suitability as President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The deputy SPD chairman Ralf Stegner asked "whom Mr. Maaßen is actually protecting, the constitution or rather the constitutional enemies from the right". Representatives of the Greens, the Left and the FDP also criticized Maassen's statement.

The Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD), called for Maassen to be dismissed because, according to her, he “questions the credibility of politics, the media and many eyewitnesses”. This creates uncertainty and destroys trust in the state, Dreyer said. Josef Schuster , the chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , warned against glossing over, against “attempts at appeasement” and “insufficient distancing from right-wing populists.” He also referred to the attack on a Jewish restaurant in Chemnitz on August 27. "The efforts of constitutional authorities to publicly trivialize the incidents" made him "seriously doubt the work of these authorities."

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution assured in a press release that "all available information regarding its truthfulness will be checked in order to come to a reliable assessment of the events". The reviews also with regard to possible "chases" are not yet completed.

In his report of 10 September Maaßen relativized in the image statements made interview. According to a report in the mirror, he moved away from the claim that the video was a deliberate fake. In return, Maaßen accused the media of having prematurely distributed the video without checking for authenticity; one would have “could and should have assumed” that it was fake in order to “distract” from the actual homicide the night before. As an explanation, he cited the name of the Twitter account “Antifa Zeckenbiss” and the pronouncement of the “anti-fascists”, who used terms that, in his opinion, were unusual for the left-wing scene. However, according to Maaßen, this video could not serve as evidence of a "hunt" as an individual case, but was used as such by the media, government spokesman Steffen Seibert and the Chancellor. According to Spiegel, Maaßen thinks this is dubious and criticizes the Chancellor in this way. The tagesschau -Redakteur Patrick Gensing wrote that the anti-fascist group announced until September 7 to have received this movie from a "patriotic group" - this term had Maaßen called uncommon for the left scene. On August 26th or 27th, one could not have these doubts about the choice of words, because "Antifa Zeckenbiss" wrote in a first description of the video of "Nazi Hools". " Patriots " is the self-designation of many right-wing radical activists and groups on Facebook, so it is, according to Gensing, not absurd that an anti-fascist group should also use that name to describe such a group. The account has been active on Twitter since February 2018 and publishes "typical content for the Antifa scene". Gensing described the controversy over the term “hunt” as a “ semantic debate” because it was “not clear how many people have to be hunted and how far in order to be able to speak of a hunt”. Andreas Löscher from the regional office commented on this Office for Education, Integration and Democracy Saxony (RAA): "It does not matter whether you want to call it a hunt or hunting scenes: the fact is that people with non-German appearance were persecuted, beaten and kicked in the stomach." According to Jost Müller-Neuhof, “false information” that he found was “ nothing more than false information on their part”. Instead of an “apparently official revelation”, it was “a mere expression of opinion by the head of the authority”, for whom the word “ hunt ” sounds too dramatic “when possible victims flee from potential violent criminals”. Maaßen created a "linguistic bogeyman ".

The Green politician Konstantin von Notz accused Maaßen of feeding “absurd conspiracy theories ”: After the riots, a broad campaign in Russian media claimed that the debate about the right-wing extremist riots was in fact just a diversionary maneuver to address the underlying crime Taking migrants out of the public eye. By disseminating this suspicion without any documents, Maassen made himself “the mouthpiece of Russian anti-Merkel propaganda ”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung also pointed out a strange lack of clarity in Maassen's statement of September 11th: When the Bild-Zeitung published Maassen's interview on September 7th at 12:05 pm, the "Antifa tick-bite" message was not online at all, she was posted at 12:57 p.m. However, on September 11th, Maaßen cited the origin of the post from an account called "Zeckenbiss" as the reason for his statements in the interview.

Transfer and discharge of Maassen

On September 18, 2018, the heads of the grand coalition agreed on Maassen's replacement as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and his appointment as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, which would have been equivalent to promotion to the highest salary group B11. For this purpose, the former SPD State Secretary Gunther Adler , responsible for construction issues, should be put into temporary retirement, which triggered criticism and concern in the construction industry. This crisis solution was renegotiated after persistent criticism of this "quasi-promotion" and on the occasion of a letter from SPD chairman Andrea Nahles to the Union on September 21, 2018, in which she asked "to reconsider the appointment". Thereupon it was decided that Maaßen in the Ministry of the Interior - with the same remuneration - should become a special advisor with the rank of department head for European and international tasks.

On November 5, 2018, Seehofer Maaßen went into temporary retirement . The background was his farewell speech in October before European intelligence chiefs, in which Maassen had spoken of “left-wing radical forces” in the SPD, who saw the Chemnitz incidents as a welcome opportunity to break the grand coalition and demanded his dismissal. Furthermore, he had repeated his claim that the hunts were “fictitious”, spoke of “German media manipulation” and a “fear of me and of the truth” and said that “a fight against right-wing extremism does not justify it, To invent right-wing extremist crimes ”. According to the journalist Hubertus Volmer, Maassen has "crossed the line to conspiracy theory ". His speech was "almost an application to join the ranks of right-wing populism ". According to the Augsburger Allgemeine , there are many “indications that Maaßen was working towards his retirement - in order to then start a new career with the nimbus of the 'indomitable'.” Miguel Sanches wrote in the Hamburger Abendblatt that “Maaßen finally slipped into the vocabulary of the AfD ”, and saw a“ lack of self-control, of humility ”and a“ opinionated move ”. Seehofer himself criticized the fact that Maaßen, after regretting his interview with the Bild newspaper in front of the Interior Committee , had now phrased things differently again.

Evaluations of chat logs from the time of the demonstrations on August 26th and 28th in the course of investigations by the LKA Sachsen against the later involved members of the alleged right-wing terrorist group Revolution Chemnitz showed that during the demonstration they turned out to be what they called “hunts "To meet" newcomers "and" Kanacken ". Testimony also confirmed that they later boasted about it.

Analyzes

For the organization and participation of the right-wing scene

Observers pointed out that the right-wing scene in Chemnitz has good communication structures and can mobilize support from the surrounding area, sometimes from all over Germany. The city was a hotspot for NSU supporters . To this day it is a stronghold of Blood and Honor , extreme right-wing hooligans and martial artists as well as the comradeship scene, said Martina Renner , Member of the Left. Violent fans and hooligans of the Chemnitz-based regional soccer division CFC partially overlap with neo-Nazi structures. The fans are highly organized and form hooligan groups such as "Kaotic" and the " NS-Boys " Chemnitz. They are networked with “ Faust des Ostens ” from Dresden and “Inferno” from Cottbus. Members of these groups were later spotted at the riot.

Number of emergency services

The Saxon police had the number of participants as well as the view of many observers violence underestimated the majority of the right and extreme right-wing protesters and was with too few forces on the ground. Media representatives also criticized the inadequate response. A few days after the first operations, it became known that the Saxon constitutional protection agency had warned the Chemnitz police and other police authorities in the run-up to the demonstrations in a "situation assessment" . For the demonstration on August 27, 2018, he pointed out the possibility that significantly more right-wing extremists, hooligans and right-wing martial artists from all over Germany than had been registered by the organizer, reported Der Tagesspiegel . The authority had warned its colleagues about a "number of participants in the lower to middle four-digit range". The Chemnitz Police Headquarters themselves stated that the organizers assumed 1,000 participants when they registered. The Interior Minister of Saxony Roland Wöller (CDU) spoke of 1,500 registered demonstrators. In fact, up to 7,500 people came to Chemnitz and were out and about in the city; 6,000 of them rights. They faced only 591 police officers. On September 1, it became known that - contrary to the previous presentation - the Chemnitz Police Department had requested reinforcements from the situation and operations center of the Pirna Federal Police Department during the operation on Monday at 8:23 p.m. However, there were no emergency services available at short notice. The usual address for the approval of additional forces would have been the responsible Federal Police Headquarters in Potsdam . According to information from Welt am Sonntag , this would have been able to order several hundred people to Chemnitz, if necessary also by helicopter. According to the newspaper, the Chemnitz police at the subordinate headquarters in Pirna had also been advised of this route; however, that was "simply not taken into account". Therefore, only 58 federal police officers were on site in Chemnitz on that day, primarily responsible for protecting the main train station .

On the political and social background

In the opinion of the former GDR civil rights activist and director of the Saxon State Center for Civic Education Frank Richter , the xenophobic riots are “the result of neglecting the perception of the growth of a right-wing extremist scene [...] especially in Saxony . We are reaping the result of a policy of condescension [...] [Here] authoritarian patterns of thought and behavior continue to have an effect . "Richter denounces a cultural and political" educational emergency in the state for which the current government, especially the CDU-led government, is responsible “Got on. The NPD had “already invested here in this country 10 or 15 years ago with various measures. The state government has glossed over it. ”The rule of law must now restore its monopoly on the use of force . But work has to be done in advance and not only when "the child" has "already fallen into the well" as in Chemnitz. While economic and technical infrastructure are well developed in many cities in East Germany, politics "has not developed the social, civil society, political, and also ethical infrastructure [...] and has [...] neglected it sustainably and over a long period of time". There is a "difficult to define borderline between Western and Eastern Europe [...] somewhere right through the middle of Germany". The eastern part "did not go along with the waves of liberalization, pluralization and a little Americanization [...] like the western part of Germany [...] and [is] culturally very strongly influenced by the view to the east or the south-east." Saxony has a "very homogeneous population" and is a "topographically, geographically, also historically coherent country [...] that had little experience with pluralization and diversity, which in many respects ticks like Poland, for example."

Holger Stark pointed out at the time that something had happened with the riots that was “new in this dimension” and gave “cause for the greatest concern”: On the street were “ neo-Nazis with hooligans and AfD supporters, with anger and Hutbürgern to a lynch mob merged, posing as shock troops of the healthy German popular sentiment aufführte. Like Pegida on amphetamines . "

In the SZ , Detlef Esslinger criticized the role of the AfD during the events and wrote that the party had tried to “legitimize neo-Nazis”. According to Esslinger, the AfD representatives “almost never used their mandate to remind people of the rule of law and democracy, or to have a moderating effect on an environment in which they would be heard. On the contrary, countless MPs of the AfD are now also using the Chemnitz weekend to show their contempt for the free-democratic basic order ”.

Political scientist Dierk Borstel noted: “The phrase 'Merkel must go' is not about the Chancellor alone. People no longer feel integrated. Many people are not doing badly personally, but rather well. This is not the suspended precariat, the Hartz IV people. These people are afraid of losing something: their money, their city, their habit, or their safety. In the past, they were mainly integrated into the major people's parties, but now they have been disintegrated and docked with the right-wing extremists. And then it becomes dangerous, because we come to precisely such formatting of movements. Where previously there were 30 clearly arranged neo-Nazi groups, there is now the feeling that a larger part of the population is behind them. It is very difficult to catch that again. [...] We need moderators between the groups. [...] We need a culture that makes it possible to talk freely, sensibly and objectively about the problems that we really have on site. "

The political scientist and right-wing extremism researcher Hajo Funke took the view that the "large majority of Chemnitz people" were democratic, but the police had "deliberately played down the incidents in Chemnitz". He assumes that “the police and other security authorities in Chemnitz and Saxony have been infiltrated from the right in parts”. In addition, the links between the AfD and the right-wing extremist scene would become closer. It is also important "to ensure social equilibrium and a balance between locals and newcomers".

The social scientist and anti-Semitism researcher Samuel Salzborn accused the Saxon state government of "not acting, looking the other way and glossing over the massive right-wing extremism problem" and called for consistent prosecution of all documented crimes in Chemnitz as a clear sign against the right-wing Scene. It is also not a problem limited to Saxony, but a Germany-wide problem. He assigned the AfD a special responsibility for the renewed right-wing rallies. With her nationalistic , racist, anti-Semitic and historical revisionist agitation, she creates the mood that is the basis of such marches. To ignore this connection is "a fatal mistake".

Broadcast reports

• Bastian Brandau , Alexandra Gerlach and Jan Rähm : Chemnitz and the consequences - rights riots in new qualities , Deutschlandfunk - " Background " from September 10, 2018

Web links

Commons : 2018 Chemnitz protests  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ARD fact finder Patrick Gensing (September 24, 2018): Chronology of Chemnitz A homicide and the political consequences . In: faktenfinder.tagesschau.de. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved on December 15, 2018.
• Press release from the Chemnitz Police Department on the riots on August 27, 2018
• Spiegel TV : Violence in Chemnitz: Right-wing extremist riots on YouTube , from September 5, 2018
• Spiegel TV: Hitler greetings under the Karl Marx monument: The people behind the Chemnitz riots on YouTube , from September 11, 2018
• Masked and armed with stones. In: zdf.de. September 11, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

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