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This is where it all started, at the corner of the rue des Nations and rue du Pont, two eight Soviet tracks bordered by soulless buildings.Daniel's photo floats on a sea of flowers and candles.In the center someone has planted a box on which we can read: "Remove their knives where we take off your mandates."For a week, far right and counter-demonstrators have been trying to appropriate this improvised mausoleum, around which all the demonstrations that shake a city on the brink of nerves..Daniel died there, stabbed after a brawl last Saturday.The alleged perpetrator is a 22 -year -old Iraqi, a repeat offender, who should have been expelled in 2016.YOUSSIF A., Arrived by the Balkan road in the summer of 2015, is what is often called in the far right circles "a refugee from Merkel".

Since Daniel's death, calm has not returned to Chemnitz and Germany seems more than ever split in two.A surge of anger with neonazis hints shakes Saxony and the ex-GDR, while the west of the country wonders with amazement and concern about the specificity of the extreme right in the "new Länder", from reunification.

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"Where is the problem?Nazi, that means "National Socialist" ""»»

Ramona, 60, four children and an office job in a small town in the surrounding area, has participated in all solidarity demonstrations with Daniel's family for a week.The human hunting scenes that shocked the whole world, when neonazis continued foreigners on Monday evening in the streets of the city without the police, in the under-effective, can intervene?Nazi greetings, facing television cameras and again without the police?"This is the worst," explains this pleasant mother: that we treat Nazis people, like me, who simply want to manifest their anger against politicians, who do nothing, and against these arrogant foreigners, whoSpend their time annoying our daughters, stealing or selling drugs.It's unbearable.And then, where is the problem?Nazi, that means "National Socialist".I am "national", since I love my country, and I am a socialist ... in itself, there is no problem! "

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IVO, 40, engineer, has been a member of AFD for a year and a half."Exactly since the moment I understood that other European countries would not accept to distribute the weight of refugees with us," he said.Red sweater, hair in battle and fine beard necklace, he detonates in the silent parade on Saturday, which AFD imposed a strict code of conduct, asking men to wear black costume and tie of mourning, and women ofWarn a white rose - the symbol of a group of Munich students resisting the third Reich and murdered by the Nazis.Before the refugees, Ivo voted for the Greens.Roni, 57 -year -old artist, braided gray beard, black leather pants and jacket, voted for the SPD.Thomas Heinz, sixties, dark suit and black tie, businessman "in insurance", gave his voice to the FDP liberals.During the last legislative elections, 27% of the inhabitants of Chemnitz gave their voices to the AFD like them.

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"Here, confidence in the state does not exist.»»»»

"What you see here is not Chemnitz", however, decide to concert Franck Heinrich and Peter Patt.The two men, both members of the CDU of Angela Merkel, posted along the parade with a labeled sign ensuring "Chemnitz is neither brunette nor gray", allusion to the brown plague of the 3rd Reich."The extreme right is active throughout Europe," emphasizes Peter Patt, elected from the Regional Parliament of Saxony.The difference is that in the west, the crust above the lava is much thicker.Here, confidence in the state does not exist.But where could it come from?Not thirty years of communism or Nazism that preceded it.And since reunification, the Eastern Germans have undergone harshness of destiny, both personal and economic.However, when the crust is finer, the lava explodes more easily ... "

"Do not forget that in the east of the country, people, because of communism, have not accumulated heritage or savings through inheritances as is the case in the West," adds Frank Heinrich, deputy at the Bundestag.They know that they will not be able to count on reservations in the event of a blow.The massive arrival of foreigners destabilized them."Saxony, summarizes the theologian Frank Richter at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, works more like Poland or Hungary than as the west of the country.»»»»