Merkel broke her loooong silence. Sigmar Gabriel was there two days earlier. With the following result:

German party receives far-right threats after refugee visit - Yahoo News

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) were forced to evacuate their headquarters on Tuesday after receiving a bomb threat and flood of racist emails and phone calls the party said were linked to leader Sigmar Gabriel's visit to the eastern town of Heidenau.

...Gabriel, who is also vice chancellor and economy minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, traveled to the town on Monday and denounced the "mob" behind the violence.

...The center-left SPD, which shares power with Merkel's conservatives, said that in the 24 hours after Gabriel's visit it had received 300 emails with "misanthropic" content and about 150 calls in which its employees were insulted and threatened.

I don't think the SPD leadership will deny that on-line violent racism reached a markedly new quality and that it is linked with a specific new wave of off-line violent racism.

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