The police didn't have enough officers available and were overwhelmed by the situation. At the beginning of the 1990s, the city was home to a strong right-wing extremist scene. In response, Dulig literally donated his kitchen table to the cause of societal enlightenment two years ago. There are similarities: anger, disgust, grief, anti-foreigner prejudice and the question as to whether these felonies might be connected to the refugee policies that have stirred up and divided this country for the last three years. Yousif A. already had a police record for criminal assault, among other things. The revulsion over this fact can be heard in many voices, from the chancellor to the German president, from German business leaders to foreign commentators. On May 1, he stood in the stands during a rally held by the labor union DGB in Chemnitz and called on all people to fight right-wing extremism. Clare … There were fewer break-ins, fewer car thefts and fewer robberies. Sahra Wagenknecht, Fraktionsvorsitzende und Spitzenkandidatin der Linken spricht über Familie, Ehe und andere private Dinge. On two occasions, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) interviewed him, most recently just a few weeks before the murder of Daniel H. -- almost three years after he had entered the country. Little changed in terms of the state's commitment to combatting right-wing extremism under Biedenkopf's successor, Georg Milbradt. The two women live in Kompott, a leftist-alternative cultural and residency center. Jetzt sehe ich sich Kolumne mit ganz anderen Augen. Im März 2019 zog sie sich überraschend aus der Politik zurück. This year, he believes the total will be higher, given the number of incidents that have taken place in the last several days. A full 38 percent would like to ban Muslims from immigrating to Germany. Er drückt sich hoch, plumpst ermattet wieder hinein. The images they created are evocative of an era that Germany had thought it had left behind; they are reminiscent of the racist 1992 attacks in the Lichtenhagen neighborhood of Rostock, which saw a mob set fire to an occupied hostel for Vietnamese workers as neighbors stood by applauding. "Of course there were scuffles," he says, before adding that the situation has calmed down significantly since then. Rumors relating to the news item spread quickly: Daniel H., it was said, had been trying to protect a woman from sexual assault. Der ist zwar überhaupt nicht links, aber er hat mir privat versichert, dass er Linksträger sei, und das ist ja insgesamt schon mal ein positives Signal.“. Das führt nur zu schlechter Qualität. Haben Sie Probleme beim Kommentieren oder Registrieren? It has lots of graffiti on the walls, homemade furniture in the yard and quite a few cats wandering around. They apparently dream of a different model: nationalist, monoethnic, authoritarian and anti-liberal. The organization "Chemnitz Nazifrei" (Keep Chemitz Free of Nazis) quickly arranged a counter-demonstration to which 1,500 people showed up. Also, goennen wir ihnen den Spass und hoffen wir, dass sie sich bald ins Privatleben in der Villa der “sozialen Gerechtigkeit” zurueckziehen und niemals wieder in einem Parlament auftauchen. Crimes that resulted in a death accounted for just 0.2 percent. Officials in Germany are concerned about how quickly right-wing elements were able to organize the riots and are now investigating to find out if secret structures are in place. At the same time, most in the state are satisfied with their own life situation -- their work, housing and free time -- and Saxons tend to be optimistic about the future. And the group is still going strong in Saxony, with hundreds of sympathizers still taking to the streets each week. There was no counter-protest because the participants' safety could not be guaranteed. Die Spannung ist jetzt schon unerträglich. Indeed, against the liberal, universal values of an enlightened, cosmopolitan society. Even today, the right-wing scene has its own shops in the city and PC Records is also based here, one of the most important right-wing extremist music labels in Germany. Mail an fehlerhinweis@taz.de! Bitte registrieren Sie sich und halten Sie sich an unsere Netiquette. Eine Familie, die zusammenhält, Dezember 1990 (kurz nach der Wiedervereinigung) und von 1995 bis 1999 SPD-Vorsitzender. A mother and her son were sitting on the other side but were luckily unharmed. Naja...ich mag ja oft die Wahrheit Kolumne, aber sich darüber lustig zu machen, dass eine Frau die sich in der politischen Öffentlichkeit bewegt schön ist und "oh-mein-gott-das-geht-ja-gar-nicht" sich stilvoll kleidet und noch dazu eine nicht der gesellschaftlichen Norm entsprechende Beziehung führt, ist nun wirklich von gestern und gehört eher in die Kategorie #metoo. Even the middle classes for the most part kept quiet about what was happening. Around 17 percent of the cases related to bodily harm, with sex crimes making up 1.5 percent of the total. The son of a Cuban father and a German mother, Daniel H. grew up in Chemnitz and had been working for the last two years at the commercial cleaning company Hausgeister. Even back then, the political opposition accused the government of having lost touch with reality. Three cities in Germany. The middle class defined itself in its niches through art, culture, science and literature. In 2007, an extreme right-wing mob attacked a group of Indians in the town of Mügeln in Saxony. "There was a lack of a middle-class sounding board that could clearly articulate itself," Vorländer says. "The systematic implementation of ethnonationalist, right-wing nationalist ideas in too many heads and hearts, rejection of liberal democracy, militant xenophobia, suspension of fundamental rights -- and all of it with the acquiescence or even support of the Saxony CDU, consummated by Pegida/AfD and violence-prone neo-Nazis.". Liity Facebookiin ja pidä yhteyttä käyttäjän Helga Regnery-Bär ja muiden tuttujesi kanssa. After Saxony sent out a request for help, the federal police sent hundreds of officers to the city, and other states also dispatched police reinforcements. Bei Sarah Wagenknecht, wagt sie aber die Gleichberechtigung. "We need more offspring -- we haven't produced enough ourselves. Three AfD parliamentarians from Saxony certainly don't. Saxony also has one of the most comprehensive extremism prevention programs in all of eastern Germany. First as deputy party chairman, then as group vice, since 2015 as head of the parliamentary group. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Besonders freut mich aber, dass Bernd Lucke und Frauke Petry mit im Boot sind. As always at his events, the rules were clear: No interrupting and stick to the facts. "Summary of Attacks on Aug. 26, 2018," it says. Sahra Wagenknecht verheiratet mit Oskar Lafontaine. In 2016, there were 32. Instagram. It was a weekend in which the people of Chemnitz actually wanted to celebrate. In Saxony, demonstrators confront reporters, as happened most recently in Dresden, when a (now former) employee of the State Criminal Police Office accosted a television team from public broadcaster ZDF. Some participants covered their faces to avoid being identified while others raised their right arms in the Hitler salute. The spectrum of those active in the region is extensive, he says. The rest of the time, he lived in Chemnitz, apparently at a friend's place. Wer also wird dabei sein? At 3 a.m. that night, the group wandered over to the central boulevard of Brückestrasse, apparently to get money from an ATM machine. Dass daneben Jan Ulrich, Jörg Kachelmann und Uschi Glas ebenfalls für einen flachen Witz missbraucht werden, ist ja dann schon fast ein Kollateralschaden. Dulig's son was one of the five passengers. Germany has been rocked by right-wing riots in the eastern city of Chemnitz that followed a deadly stabbing over the weekend. In June 2015, right-wing extremists used baseball bats to strike a car they suspected was carrying supporters of a refugee hostel in the town of Freital. The authorities in the east routinely turned a blind eye to what was happening. Definitiv dabei sein wird auch Bernd Bege- oder Stegemann, das weiß ich jetzt nicht so genau. But the state government, he says, ignored these slights and the lurch to the right that followed them. Einerseits bin ich Stil-Ikone, andererseits trage ich privat schon mal Schlabber-Couture und silberne Crocs. Here, local residents are seen trying to stop refugees from moving into a hostel in the town of Clausnitz in 2016. "I tried to take care of him a bit," says Yousif. Then came the fall of communism and the invasion of outsiders: The West Germans, or Wessies, who occupied important positions in the state and often acted as if they were better at everything. „Ich wurde schon so oft missverstanden, dass ich direkt zur Miss-Wahl gehen könnte – als Miss Verstanden. The mob is back, is the message sent by the images from Chemnitz, just like 26 years ago. The number of all crimes committed in Saxony dropped slightly last year, by 0.5 percent. Verstehen Sie den Witz?“. Wir freuen uns über eine In the town of Merseburg, a rampaging mob drove a group of Cubans into the local Saale River, resulting in two drownings. In the Chemnitz neighborhood of Sonnenberg, where Lokomov is located, right-wing extremists wanted to establish a "national liberated zone" a few years ago, an area that would adhere exclusively to radical right-wing ideology. November 1998 war er Ministerpräsident des Saarlandes. When criticism mounted against Frohnmaier's tweet, AfD party boss Alexander Gauland stepped in to try and mollify critics. He said there has been an increase in crime, "particularly in serious crimes like murder, theft and rape." Migrants take away our jobs, they threaten our culture and they threaten our women. Yousif A. was registered in Annaberg-Buchholz, a village of half-timbered houses where cows graze in the fields. Wäre ein solcher Humorbeitrag in der BILD erschienen , hätte man oben und unten den Hinweis "Satire" gefunden. The two groups were separated only by a meager chain of 591 police officers. He then made a plea for immigration, reminding the audience that the German society is aging. Initially, according to his files, officials wanted to send him back to Bulgaria because they believed that he had submitted an asylum application there. The message: Offenburg refuses to allow the crime to be exploited for political purposes. Although she herself grew up in East Germany, there is no place in the country where she is less liked than in the east. Alexis Tsipras (1974–): Leader of Syriza and Prime Minister of Greece from 26 January 2015 to 8 July 2019. Just hours after the crime, some 800 demonstrators marched through the city, some of them shoving police to the ground while others threatened people who looked like they might be refugees. Besser, Oskar Lafontaine voegelt mit Sahra (die ja wirklich verdammt gut aussieht) , als dass sie “Politik” machen. „Doch da konnte ich ihm keine leeren Versprechungen machen“, kichert die schöne Sozialistin zum Abschied. The History of DER SPIEGEL, SPIEGEL Rights, Reprints and other Usages, The Death of an Ideal: Killing in Germany Triggers Fresh Refugee Debate, Who Are We? Werte Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Mediencampus Villa Ida Poetenweg 28 04155 Leipzig. A bit like Trump, a bit like Orbán. Alle Finanzmärkte, Produkte und Akteure sollen reguliert oder beaufsichtigt werden. Rather than dealing with the problem of radical youth in his state, Biedenkopf preferred to cultivate a brand of cozy regional patriotism. The right-wing demonstrators used the victim of the knife attack as an excuse to stage their demonstration of power. Für Fragen zu Rechten oder Genehmigungen wenden Sie sich bitte an lizenzen@taz.de. Suchbegriff. For quite some time, right-wing populists have been deliberately searching for suitable violent crimes they can exploit to gain political capital. Firecrackers and smoke bombs flew through the air, as did paving stones. The hoodlums are, of course, far from being in the majority in Saxony. Yousif A. told the officials why he had to flee the northern Iraqi province of Ninive, and it had nothing to do with the political situation there. The problem is that, by that point, he was constantly having to make statements like that -- because similar events were happening all over the state. For the young physicist from Templin, the GDR was a small, old-fashioned world that she quickly left behind once the Wall fell. "This ambivalence is typical of Saxony," says Hans Vorländer. Michael Kretschmer (left) is the governor of the state of Saxony. Today, he and his staff teach the basics of democracy and personal respect in schools and day care centers. Peter Gauweiler sei „natürlich“ mit dabei, auch Reinhold Beckmann, wenn auch eher aus Versehen, „aber der ließ sich nicht mehr abschütteln“. Fast fünf Jahre ist das her. Recently, the city began investing 80,000 euros annually in a project aimed at promoting democracy, tolerance and cosmopolitanism in Chemnitz. "The support provided by the state has grown, but so has the need," says Reissig. Besser, Oskar Lafontaine voegelt mit Sahra (die ja wirklich verdammt gut aussieht) , als dass sie “Politik” machen. "There are idiots everywhere," he says. Of course, resistance against her open borders policy also quickly formed in the West, but it has never been as hate-filled as it has been in the east. But they are currently much louder than the majority. By contrast, Waibel notes that there were no known racist mob attacks on foreigner hostels in western Germany until 1992. "There are tight links between hooligans and Kameradschaften," says hooligan expert Robert Claus, the latter a reference to loose alliances of neo-Nazis. In recent days, he says, he has seen citizens of his city saying on television that they no longer dared go out on the streets, adding that he was at a loss. Video cameras have recently been installed and a mobile police station has been set up where citizens can report their concerns. In the summer of 2017, the German pollster Infratest dimap surveyed around 1,000 Saxons on behalf of the governor's office. They chase down and attack migrants, they set fire to asylum-seeker hostels, they have apparently abandoned human decency itself, along with civilized debate and the political system of representational democracy. The reasons the researcher provides for the attacks sound familiar: social envy and social Darwinist views. Die haben einen hohen Bekanntheitsgrad und sind zurzeit politisch irgendwie … heimatlos. A restaurant owner who has employees from all over the world complained that people don't want to be served by foreigners. AfD parliamentarian Markus Frohnmaier tweeted: "Today it is a civic duty to stop the deadly knife migration." Das „schöne und kluge Aushängeschild der Linkspartei“ (SuperIllu) geleitet uns ins Wohnzimmer, einen Traum in Apricot und Shabby-Chic. On the other hand, though, it is widely seen as having a neo-Nazi problem. Der Mann im Fernsehsessel schaut verwirrt auf, dann fängt er weiter Fliegen. Alaa S. has been in pre-trial detention since Tuesday and has apparently cooperated with the police. He also indirectly called for vigilante justice. "For us as an organization, it was basically a capitulation," says Löscher. Berlin historian Harry Waibel searched the East German archives and listed more than 8,600 instances of neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic propaganda and violent crimes in the GDR and found that at least 10 people died. SPIEGEL+-Zugang wird gerade auf einem anderen Gerät genutzt. Saxon Economy Minister Martin Dulig is one of the few politicians who has spoken out clearly for years when the state has been hit by right-wing extremist riots, in part due to his own personal experience. Target agreements. Every fourth voter plans to cast their ballot for the right-wing populists, putting the party in second place behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). They presented their own view of events at a press conference, with Tino Chrupalla, deputy AfD floor leader in the federal parliament, saying that citizens feared for their own safety and that of their children. Fifty-six percent already consider the number of foreigners in the country to be "dangerous" although most of them claim that they hardly ever have any personal contact with foreigners. Despite the fact that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had warned of a number in the "mid four-digit range," the Chemnitz police declined to request backup ahead of Monday's protests. This time, says Vorländer, the feeling of being slighted, the feeling of being punished through no fault of their own, spread far beyond Dresden and across the entire state. They provide support to the refugees and, as a civil society, do not accept hatred and violence. According to a report compiled by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, there were 95 such crimes in Saxony in 2017. "We can win this battle," he says. Like Dulig, Richter is a member of the SPD and would like to become Meissen's next mayor. Der sammelt sich ja auch selbst gerade.“ Ullrich habe lediglich zur Auflage gemacht, dass Til Schweiger nicht auch dabei sein dürfe. The conversation culminated in his realization that: "The real problem is immigration.". In Chemnitzer FC, the local football club, there are a lot of neo-Nazis among the fans. Many Saxons feel that they are treated like second-class citizens. Sahra Wagenknecht (1969–): Left-wing politician ; Greece. "Chemnitz is a big village," says Marie. As soon as she appears, people show up to scream at the "traitor to the people.". Wir lachen schrill und schenkelklopfend, kugeln uns auf dem Terrakottaboden. Not even five hours after the bloody crime, the tabloid website tag24.de published a report under the headline: "35-Year-Old Dies after Stabbing in the City." In Saxony, the party is at 25 percent (an increase of 4 percentage points) in the polls, trailing the CDU by only 5 points. Oliver Maria Schmitt, Allen wochenlangen Feierlichkeiten auf deutschem Boden zum Trotze: Siebzig Jahre altes Grundgesetz sind jetzt aber doch mal genug! Only nine years later, he would claim that the Saxon population was "completely immune" to right-wing extremist temptations. Bottles were thrown. That's how things were -- at least until the strangers came from the West and thoughtlessly and often arrogantly turned things upside down according to their own rules. Im Hintergrund schlurft ein alter, weißhaariger Mann durchs Zimmer. "Self-defense is certainly not vigilante justice. "With loud resistance, they get what they want," he said. The ugly German -- racist, xenophobic and full of rage -- is back. The police, says a senior officer in an attempt to explain the sympathy held by some officers for AfD and Pegida, is a reflection of society and its development. The German opposition leader Sahra Wagenknecht came to talk in Munich. It is, of course, inaccurate to say that AfD supporters are synonymous with right-wing hooligans. "The security situation in Chemnitz is good," Runkel says. Alaa S., his alleged accomplice, was likewise approachable, at least according to Mohamed Yousif, the boss of the Zana barber shop in Chemnitz who taught S. how to cut hair. LG. But that didn't happen. A poster of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a Pegida demonstration in Dresden. "I expect everyone in the Free State of Saxony to categorically oppose this," he said at the time. Saxony is the fertile soil out of which Pegida (which stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) sprouted, the xenophobic group that has been staging weekly marches against Muslims since autumn 2014. Ireland. September bekannt geben?“ Der linke Lady-Boss zögert noch, dann hagelt es Breaking News: „Okay, aber das bleibt unter uns: Ziemlich sicher wird Horst Seehofer dabei sein. The militant comments made by the AfD politicians don't appear to just be a couple of off-the-cuff remarks made by loose cannons. Yanis Varoufakis (1961–): Minister of Finance from 27 January 2015 to 6 July 2015. One of the chairs was occupied by the city's representative in federal parliament, Frank Richter. His co-workers liked him and his friends say he was always in a good mood, always ready with a smile. In this instance, too, the heads of the Hesse state chapter of the party distanced themselves from the posting and it was eventually deleted. Far-right protesters in Chemnitz: The eastern state of Saxony has become a breeding ground of right-wing activists, with extremist structures having become solidified shortly after German reunification. Hundreds of people from around the region responded to a call for a civil courage initiative, one that resulted in many helping and volunteering to work with the refugees.