Clausnitz in Saxony, 1910. Wikicommons/ unkown. Public domain.Let’s start with #Clausnitz. What happened in Clausnitz?
Clausnitz, a town in the beautiful Erzgebirge in Saxony on Thursday, 18 February: a group of about 100 people first blocked a bus bringing refugees to Clausnitz, for four hours. They harassed the refugees and shouted at them‚ “Go home, we don’t want you here”. The police allowed the mob to get really close to the bus which created an intimidating and quite frankly threatening situation for the refugees. Some of them as a result refused to leave the vehicle, fearing for their lives, as they later said. Among them were many women and children.
How come that 100 people spontaneously demonstrated out of a town of only 800?
