Spy head U-turn on ‘fake’ video

– The head of Germany’s domestic spy agency, facing calls to quit for questioning whether a video showing far-right gangs hounding migrants in the city of Chemnitz was genuine, now accepts the footage was real, two papers reported yesterday.

Hans-Georg Maassen, who heads the BfV intelligence agency, prompted anger last week for telling top-selling Bild he was not sure if the footage was genuine. –Reuters

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