Thousands of far-right protesters have marched through Chemnitz, a city in eastern Germany on Saturday over the August 26 killing of a German citizen, allegedly by migrants from Syria and Iraq.
Leaders of Germany's Alternative for Germany party and of populist group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West wore dark suits and held white roses as they began what they called a "mourning march" Saturday evening.
Several thousand people followed behind them.
Many participants held German flags and posters of alleged victims of migrant violence.
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Large numbers of police officers lined the streets while watching to keep the far-right crowd away an earlier protest against anti-foreigner sentiment that drew about 2,000 participants, according to the German news agency DPA.
The opposing camps confronted one another violently in Chemnitz on Monday, shocking people in others parts of Germany and scenes of vigilantes chasing foreigners in the city's streets have shocked people in others parts of Germany since then.
The increasingly open displays of anti-migrant sentiment and violence reflect Germany's ongoing effort to come to terms with an influx of more than 1 million refugees and migrants seeking jobs since 2015.
APTN
