GERMANY’S vice chancellor has been filmed giving the middle finger to a group of noisy protesters angry over his government’s refugee policy.

The group of right-wing youths shouted insults at Sigmar Gabriel and his staff at an event of the German Social Democrats in the town of Salzgitter last Friday, RT reported.

In a video posted on Facebook by a group called “Antifa Kampfausbildung”, or “Antifa Combat Training”, young men in black jackets approach the group shouting, “People’s traitors!” and holding placards reading, “Who betrayed us? Social Democrats!”

Gabriel looks on and laughs before raising his middle finger to youths — who the left-wing Antifa group claims are members of the far-right National Democratic Party — before turning his back to walk away.

The incident comes weeks after a series of brutal attacks committed by refugees in the south of the country — two of which were claimed by Islamic State — and nearly nine months after the New Year’s Eve mass sex attacks in which more than 1200 women were assaulted by more than 2000 men in German cities.

Rising violence and lawlessness has fuelled public unease about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “willkommenskultur” policy of letting in nearly 1.1 million asylum seekers last year.

In May, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas was forced to flee a rally in the town of Zwickau when his pro-refugee speech was interrupted by more than 200 demonstrators blowing whistles, hurling boos and insults.

Maas is one of the German government's key proponents of harsh new censorship laws against anti-immigrant “hate speech” on social media. In April, police raided the homes of 10 men in Berlin for allegedly posting “anti-migrant messages” online.