Tensions are rising in the east German city after violent demonstrations by the far moral Packing absent her metal trays of breads and biscuits in Chemnitz’s Peukert bakery,famous for its century-old recipes, the shop assistant says she is glad it is closing time. external, and police and protesters are gathering ahead of the latest far-moral rally. “We’ve been here before,” she says, pulling down the window blinds and shrugging, and saying that the insurers will pay for any damage. “Thirty years ago we also had to inform the state what’s what.”“It’s just like way back then,” the woman, who declined to give her name, and says of the 1989 protests that brought down the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR). “It feels like no one really listens to us ordinary folk,which is why people are on the streets again.”I worry the police won’t manage to keep the mobs at bay next timeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com