- Title: Hundreds of right-wing protesters gather in east German town
- Date: 9th September 2018
- Summary: KOETHEN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 9, 2018) (REUTERS) RIGHT-WING PROTESTERS MARCHING POLICE ESCORTING MARCH POLICE STANDING ON FOOTPATH PROTESTERS MARCHING VARIOUS OF LEFT-WING PROTESTERS GATHERED AT TRAIN STATION PROTESTERS MARCHING POLICE VANS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING PROTESTERS GATHERED MAN LAYING CANDLE AT VIGIL CANDLES VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS STANDING AROUND VIGIL CANDLE
- Embargoed: 23rd September 2018 18:59
- Keywords: Koethen two Afghans German man east Germany
- Location: KOETHEN, GERMANY
- City: KOETHEN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0018WWNFWN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Around 1,500 people participated in a right-wing march in the eastern German town of Koethen on Sunday (September 9) evening, after a 22-year-old German man died overnight and two Afghans were detained on suspicion of killing him.
Protesters marched through the town, ending up at a vigil of candles and flowers at a playground where the incident allegedly took place.
A left-wing protest of about 150 people took place at the train station.
The police and the public prosecutor's office said in a short statement: "Two Afghans were provisionally detained on suspicion of homicide ... The reasons for, and concrete circumstances of, the incident are not yet known."
News of the death followed the killing of another German man in the city of Chemnitz, southeast of Koethen, for which two asylum seekers - a Syrian and an Iraqi - were arrested.
The most violent right-wing protests in decades followed the Aug. 26 killing in Chemnitz. At dusk in Koethen, both far-right and left-wing protesters began assembling to demonstrate.
The state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, home to Koethen, said protests there must not turn out like those in Chemnitz.
Germany is deeply divided over Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2015 decision to allow in over a million migrants, many of them refugees from wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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