Anti-migrant attacks are quickly becoming an everyday occurrence in the state of Saxony. At the end of last week an angry mob chanted ”Go home, go home!“ as refugees arrived in the small town of Clausnitz.

Just a short while later: an arson attack in Bautzen – also in Saxony. As a planned refugee shelter burns, onlookers cheer and try to block the work of the fire service.

There have already been more than one hundred attacks on refugees so far this year in Germany. Saxony is one of the key flashpoints.

Why is there such a potential for violence in German society? And how can the racist mob be stopped?

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Our guests:

Fabian von der Mark is DW correspondent for security matters. He just came back from Saxony where he reported on the latest anti-immigrant incidents. He says: "The government in Saxony still hasn't understood that the fight against xenophobic violence is a major task and that it needs a proper plan.”

Alan Posener is a commentator for the German newspaper “Die Welt”. He says: “You can find stupid people everywhere in Europe. The really dangerous people are the intellectuals who use the mob for their own purposes.”

Mekonnen Mesghena is an expert for migration and diversity at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. He says: “Politicians who constantly talk about ‘waves of refugees’, ’Islamisation’, and “caps on permitted refugee intakes’ are only fanning the flames of far-right violence.”