Police Of Germany's Chemnitz Detain 6 Nationalists - Statement

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th September, 2018) The police of the German city of Chemnitz have detained six nationalists who had injured an Iranian national after a verbal argument, the city's police and prosecutor's office said in a joint statement on Saturday.

According to the statement, on Friday evening, the detained individuals approached a group of people, among them German, Iranian and Pakistani nationals, in one of the city's parks. The far-right radicals verbally abused them with the use of nationalistic statements, after which one of the nationalists slightly injured a 20-year Iranian national.

On Saturday, at the request of the prosecutor's office the detained individuals appeared before the court, which issued an arrest warrant for one of the offenders, the press release added.

The city of Chemnitz has seen a wave of mass anti-immigrant rallies and protests in recent weeks, with thousands of people, including far-right radicals, taking to the streets. The rallies were sparked by the murder of a German citizen on August 26, allegedly at the hands of two migrants from Iraq and Syria, who have since been arrested. �