2018 Chemnitz riots

When

26 Aug 2018 – 1 Sep 2018

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

50.83° N, 12.92° E

Description

August 2018 extreme right-wing riots in Chemnitz, Germany

Cause

2018 Chemnitz stabbing attack

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

2018 German anti-immigration unrest

The 2018 Chemnitz protests took place in Chemnitz, in the German state of Saxony. In the early morning of 26 August, after a festival celebrating the city's founding, a fight broke out resulting in the death of a German man and serious injuries to two other people. Two Kurdish immigrants, one from Iraq and the other from Syria, were named as suspects.

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Mass Mobilization Project v5.1: protests against governments, 1990–2020 (Clark & Regan)David Clark and Patrick Regan · names it “Protest in Chemnitz, Germany”Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In the city of Chemnitz, 8,000-strong far right protests are held after a German man is killed by an Iraqi and a Syrian asylum seeker”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Chemnitz (Sachsen) kommt es zu ausländerfeindlichen Ausschreitungen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page