Stock Photo - 11 December 2023, Saxony, Chemnitz: A court official stands in front of three of six defendants before the start of the trial in connection with riots and racist attacks in late summer 2018 in Chemnitz district court. More than five years after a massive attack on participants in the ""Herz statt Hetze"" demonstration in Chemnitz, a first trial on the attack is beginning. Six of the original nine defendants, aged between 26 and 44, are now expected to appear in court. As participants in a so-called funeral march by AfD, Pegida and Pro Chemnitz, they are alleged to have attacked and injured counter-demonstrators on September 1, 2018. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa. - Chemnitz/Saxony/Germany