"I share the skepticism towards media reports of right-wing extremists chasing down [foreigners] in Chemnitz," the president of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, Hans-Georg Maassen told the Bild newspaper, adding that "there is good reason to believe that this is deliberate misinformation, possibly to distract the public's attention from the murder in Chemnitz."
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Minister President of Saxony Michael Kretschmer, earlier this week, condemned media reports about the situation in the city during the protests, stressing that “there was no mob, there was no hunt and there was no pogrom in Chemnitz."
The mass protests in the Saxon city were caused by the death of a German citizen Daniel Hillig, who had been stabbed to death on August, 26, allegedly — by migrants. Two suspects — an Iraqi and Syrian, were detained following the murder, while on Tuesday a court approved a warrant for the arrest of a third suspect in the case.
