(DPA) The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) held an event on Friday evening in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg, where a fatal knife attack has inflamed tensions over migration policy just weeks ahead of national elections.
Among the participants was the AfD’s leader in the state of Thuringia, Björn Höcke, who is seen as the head of the party’s radical wing, and is well known across Germany for his fiery rhetoric, having twice been convicted for knowingly quoting a banned Nazi slogan.
Höcke used the occasion to blame government politicians for acts of violence such as the one in Aschaffenburg, a city in north-western Bavaria.
