The following video shows an excerpt from the live-stream coverage of a protest during a recent visit to Dresden by Chancellor Angela Merkel. A large crowd of anti-immigration demonstrators — supporters of PEGIDA and AfD — gathered alongside the route to greet Mrs. Merkel with banners and shouted slogans.

Irony of ironies, while all this was going on, a breaking news report appeared on the crawl ribbon at the bottom of the screen about an Afghan with a knife who was terrorizing downtown Dresden (see “The Knife of Peace Comes to Dresden”).

Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript: