Topic - Chemnitz

; known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt) is the third-largest city in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the Landesdirektion Sachsen. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is part of the Central German Metropolitan Region. The city's economy is based on the service sector and manufacturing industry. Chemnitz University of Technology has around 10,000 students. - Source: Wikipedia

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The defendant Alaa S. arrives at the court in Dresden, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. A German court has convicted a Syrian asylum-seeker over a fatal stabbing in the city of Chemnitz last year that touched off far-right protests. The state court in Dresden convicted Alaa S. of manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm in the killing last August of Daniel Hillig. (Matthias Rietschel/dpa via AP)

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Police Officers stand in front of the court entrance prior the beginning of the trial against Alaa S. of Syria in the higher regional court in Dresden, Germany, Monday, March 18, 2019. The asylum seeker is accused together with now fugitive Iraqi asylum-seeker of having killed 35-year-old Daniel H. in Chemnitz on Aug. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, attends the training of the NINERS German first divisioner basketball youth teams (under 16 years and under 19 years) during her one-day visit in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Chemnitz has seen a few federal politicians show their faces since a 35-year-old local man was stabbed to death in August, allegedly by migrants, followed by a surge of violent right-wing protests. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2017 file photo Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, arrives for a public hearing at the parliamentary control committee of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin. A saga over Germany’s outgoing domestic intelligence chief that hurt the country’s government has taken a new twist, with his move to another job apparently in danger. German news agency dpa reported that Maassen assailed in a farewell speech what he described as radical left-wing forces in the Social Democrats, and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is now considering whether to dismiss him or send him into retirement. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

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FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2018 photo protesters light fireworks during a far-right demonstration in Chemnitz, Germany. German prosecutors say they have ordered the arrest of six men on suspicion of forming a &quot;far-right terrorist organization&quot; in the eastern city of Chemnitz, where anti-migrant violence flared this summer. Prosecutors said in a statement the men planned to carry out armed attacks against foreigners and political enemies. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

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In this photo taken with a reflection in a window of the visitors tribune, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her speech during a plenary session of the German parliament Bundestag about the budget 2019, in Berlin, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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People attend a demonstration in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, Friday, Sept.7, 2018, after several nationalist groups called for marches protesting the killing of a German man two weeks ago, allegedly by migrants from Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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Police cars stand across the road as police separate leftist and nationalist demonstrators in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, after several nationalist groups called for marches protesting the killing of a German man last week, allegedly by migrants from Syria and Iraq. (dpa via AP)

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A protestor holds a poster with a photo of Angela Merkel referring reading she is guilty of incitement in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, after several nationalist groups called for marches protesting the killing of a German man last week, allegedly by migrants from Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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A cross is decorated with flowers in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, at the site where 35-year-old man was stabbed the Sunday before. (Ralf Hirschberger/dpa via AP)

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A woman knees in front of candles and flowers at the scene of an altercation in Chemnitz, Germany, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. The protest late Monday, sparked by the killing of a 35-year-old German man in an altercation with migrants over the weekend, erupted into clashes between neo-Nazis and left-wing counter-protesters. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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In this Aug 27, 2018, file photo protesters light fireworks during a far-right demonstration in Chemnitz, Germany, after a man has died and two others were injured in an altercation between several people of &quot;various nationalities&quot; in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

Germany: Saxony governor visits city shaken by protests

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FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2018 file photo protesters gather for a far-right protest in front of a Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz, Germany. The large banner shows the bloodied faces of a dozen women above the words “we’re colorful until the blood flows.” The message to the boisterous crowd is clear: this is what migrants will do to you wives, sisters and daughters _ but the women pictured were actually victims of unrelated violent crimes in other countries. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

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