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A 6-year-old girl has survived a fall of 9 meters from a ski lift in Germany. The child was seriously injured and was taken to hospital by helicopter.

Nearly three months after a fatal stabbing and subsequent riots in Chemnitz Chancellor Merkel came yesterday to take pole height. The East German city is the symbol of the seemingly torn country, the deep gap between militant right-wing radicals, genuinely concerned citizens and left-liberal democrats: 'I know I have a face that polarizes. '

Hundreds of people on Friday in Chemnitz in the east of Germany argued against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her policies. There were many right-wing populists among the activists. They called, among other things, 'traitors' and 'Merkel has to leave'.

The German right-wing extremist group Revolution Chemnitz planned to commit more terrorist acts than their kindred spirits of the National Socialist Underground NSU at the time.

The chief of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, who had to leave following controversial statements about disturbances in Chemnitz, does not become a state secretary. This apparently has an important point of conflict between CDU, CSU and SPD. The German news agency DPA has heard about this in coalition circles.

The chief of the German intelligence service Hans-Georg Maassen has to resign after his controversial statements about disturbances in Chemnitz where migrants had to pay for it. The German government announced on Tuesday that Maassen will resign and will work as Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior.

A 22-year-old Iraqi man arrested in East German Chemnitz for a stabbing in which a 35-year-old German was killed last month is released.

The German internal security service BfV wants to expand considerably. Sources at the Ministry of the Interior told the magazine Der Spiegel that the top of the security service is aiming for almost a doubling of the number of employees. 3100 people now work at the service. That should be 6000 in 2021.

The social democratic coalition partner of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the head of the internal security service BfV to resign. 'For the party management of the SPD it is crystal clear: Maassen has to leave', said party secretary Lars Klingbeil. He called Merkel to intervene.

Again, a murder has been committed by two asylum seekers in Germany. The city police of Köthen arrested two Afghans who killed a 22-year-old German.

In case of protests by nationalists against immigration in Chemnitz in the east of Germany, a Jewish restaurant was attacked nearly two weeks ago. The newspaper Die Welt reported on Saturday that on 27 August, ten neo-Nazis, stones, bottles and a well-worn steel pipe were tossed to the restaurant.

The head of the German internal security service (BfV) doubts whether right-wing demonstrations in Chemnitz have been a hunt for foreigners. According to Hans Georg Maassen, there is no taxable evidence that such manhunts have taken place. He says that Friday in the German newspaper Bild.

Tens of thousands of music lovers and activists have committed themselves to xenophobia, racism and right-wing extremist violence during a concert in Chemnitz. Under the slogan 'we are with more' bands such as Die Toten Hosen, Kraftklub and rappers Marteria and Casper performed in the Saxon city on Monday night.

During the demonstrations held in Chemnitz on Saturday, eighteen people were injured, including three policemen. Earlier, the police spoke of nine wounded.

About 4500 extreme right-wing demonstrators sat a quiet tour through the German city at the beginning of the evening in Chemnitz. Earlier in the day some 3,500 people demonstrated for peace and against xenophobia.

Germany is becoming an ordinary country. The national football team is no longer automatically champion every time, the political leader Merkel is miles away from the common man, the extreme right dominates in the opposition, it is no longer unusual to wave with the German flag, people complain about the Nazi- past more than tired, there is debate about whether refugees and migrants are still welcome, there are unsavory demonstrations like in Chemnitz, the supreme car industry lied and betrayed in dieselgate, solidarity has disappeared, not everyone is more blind behind the EU to, a comic book about Hitler 'Er ist wieder da' became a bestseller and the German army must play a significant role again. The latter, however, in close cooperation with the French. To walk in the forefront with an army, the Germans go too far with some historical awareness.

Justice in the German city of Chemnitz has suspended an employee who would have leaked the official arrest warrant against a suspect of a stabbing. The case caused a stir in Germany in recent days.

Yousif Ibrahim A., a 22-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq, is one of the perpetrators of the stabbing in Chemnitz who, in the night from Saturday to Sunday, took the death of Daniel H. The asylum seeker would have known to the German examining magistrate that he had stabbed the victim five times in his chest. Yousif A. is kept in custody with a friend Alaa S. because of the murder.

The German city of Chemnitz can prepare for a new demonstration following the death of a 35-year-old German last weekend. The right-wing populist party AfD and the anti-foreigners movement Pegida have announced a silent march through the city for Saturday afternoon.

Extremely concerned our eastern neighbors react to the massive, extreme right-wing demonstrations in Chemnitz, where the forbidden Hitler greeting was often seen and there was a manhunt on migrants. While chancellor Merkel and other politicians condemned the behavior, the nationalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) pokes the fire once again.

The police in East German Chemnitz is investigating ten people who have shown the Hitler salute during demonstrations and riots of the past few days. No arrests have been made yet, according to the police on Tuesday.

The police in Germany issued two arrest warrants in connection with the death of a 35-year-old German in the East German city of Chemnitz. The two wanted men are a 23-year-old Syrian and a 22-year-old Iraqi. They would have stabbed the victim several times after a fight on Saturday night. Two others were injured.

The city festival in Chemnitz in the German state of Saxony was prematurely ended on Sunday for safety reasons. Nationalist demonstrators had taken to the streets in response to the death of a 35-year-old German in a fight in the night from Saturday to Sunday.

The Syrian terrorist Jaber al-Bakr, who last weekend was arrested because he wanted to commit a terrorist attack, committed suicide in his cell in the prison of Leipzig. This has been told the German news agency DPA Wednesday.

The Leipzig arrested terror suspect from Syria had been under German domestic intelligence supposedly an airport in Berlin on the eye. That the head of the Verfassungsschutz, Hans-Georg Maaβen Monday told the public broadcaster ARD.

In German media are revealing photos surfaced of the arrested Jabr al-Bakr. The alleged terrorist, who wanted to carry out an attack like in Brussels or Paris, is tied with an extension cord on a couch in an apartment in Leipzig.

The 22-year-old Syrian who was arrested in the night from Sunday to Monday after a manhunt in Leipzig, had links to Islamic State, as the German prosecutor announced. The man is formally suspected of preparing an attack.

German police after a massive manhunt arrested a Syrian suspected of preparing an attack. The man in the night from Sunday to Monday held in Leipzig, police reported.

The manhunt for the alleged terrorist Jaber Albakr was extended in Germany. In Chemnitz Sunday heard an explosion, possibly in a raid by the police. At the Berlin airports Schoenefeld and Tegel is extra police presence. Cars, taxis and buses are searched by heavily armed agents.

German police said Sunday two of the three people released who had been arrested a day earlier in Chemnitz because of possible involvement in the preparation of a bombing. The man still stuck, a Syrian, remains suspicious of complicity. The study for the extension of his detention pending trial is ongoing.