'No proof for beating in Chemnitz'

berlin - 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.

Maassen argues that the authenticity of an Internet video on which foreigners are attacked has not been proven. According to him, it is quite possible that the video has been falsified to divert attention from the murder of a 35-year-old German. It was stabbed at the end of August. The main suspect is an Iraqi man. The case was the occasion of a series of manifestations of right-wing demonstrators and left wing counter-demonstrators.

The term manhunt is used, among other things, by Chancellor Angela Merkel to describe the scenes in the East German city.