INVASION OF EUROPE: Many People in Germany are Letting Merkel Know, THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH!

An onlooker, standing across the road from the asylum 

centre, holds a sign that reads "traitor of the people"

 during Mrs Merkel's visit

A surge in neo-Nazi violence is turning into a stumbling block for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as it struggles to accommodate an increasing flow of migrants from the Middle East and Balkans.

Far-right forces have largely failed to take hold as an established political movement in Germany—unlike in France, Greece and elsewhere in Europe. But a backlash against migrants shows ultranationalists still pose a challenge for Ms. Merkel, who has sought to take a firm stance against extremism even as many in her conservative party favor a restrictive line on immigration.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel with Saxony' states 

Premier Stanislaw Tillich after a visit to a shelter for asylum 

seekers in Heidenau, eastern Germany. The town had far-right 

protests during the weekend. Illustration: Getty Images

On Wednesday, the chancellor called on Germans to stand up to xenophobic behavior as she visited a migrant shelter in a town in eastern Germany where far-right protesters hostile to asylum seekers rioted over the weekend.

“It’s shameful and repulsive what we had to witness,” Ms. Merkel said Wednesday during her trip to the camp in Heidenau, where the three days of riots left 35 police officers injured. A small group of protesters booed her and shouted “traitor” as she arrived.

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“There is no tolerance toward those who question the dignity of other people,” she said. “The more people make this clear…the stronger we will be.”

Germany, alongside prosperous northern European economies such as Sweden and the U.K., is a magnet for both legal and illegal migrants due to its relatively strong economy and generous social-welfare system. About 40% of the 334,080 people who applied for asylum in the European Union in the first five months of the year did so in Germany. Berlin last week nearly doubled its forecast for asylum seekers to 800,000 from 450,000 for this year.

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