Anti-immigration party, with 33% of votes, looks to have secured its first regional election win.
The Alternative for Germany's top candidate Bjoern Hoecke gives a thumbs-up on Sept 1 during the Thuringia state election in Erfurt, Germany.
Wearing a T-shirt carrying Mr Hoecke’s signature, he described the 52-year-old state party leader as “the only politician who has any sense these days”. When the first results were announced, Mr Hoecke, a slim man with piercing blue eyes, had briefly appeared before the media with his arms raised, hailing “a historic victory”.
About a week before the state elections in Thuringia and Saxony, Germany was shocked by a stabbing spree at a street festival in the western city of Solingen, where a 26-year-old Syrian man with suspected links to the Islamic State group is alleged to have killed three people. The group of anti-AfD demonstrators meanwhile crossed the city as night fell, passing through middle class suburbs and past drab communist-era housing blocks.
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