(Reuters) Germany’s conservative interior minister said on Thursday he would have joined protests over the fatal stabbing of a German man, allegedly by two migrants, in comments likely to deepen divisions in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition.
Far-right groups clashed with police and chased people they deemed to be migrants in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Aug. 26 after police said a Syrian and an Iraqi had been detained as suspects in the killing of a 35-year-old German man.
“People are annoyed and outraged because of such homicides and I understand that,” Seehofer told the Rheinische Post newspaper in an interview. “If I had not been a minister, I would have taken to the streets as a citizen, but of course not with the radicals.”
