German interior minister says would have joined protests over stabbing

September 6, 2018 and   

(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.”

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