Far-right violence on rise in east Germany

THERE were renewed farright protests in Germany yesterday as attacks against migrants spread across the east of the country.

Around 800 protesters gathered in Chemnitz, the scene of neo-nazi riots earlier in the week following the suspected killing of a man by two immigrants.

Regional officials were booed and jeered as they tried to reassure locals at a restive town hall meeting. Protesters chanted “We are the people” and held aloft banners saying Chemnitz must not become an “African colony”.

Hundreds of miles to the north, a Syrian man was injured after he was attacked and beaten with an iron chain by three Germans.

A prison officer admitted he was responsible for leaking an arrest warrant for one of the accused immigrants to far-right groups who shared it on social media.