A 24-year-old Syrian man was on Thursday sentenced to nine and a half years in jail over the fatal stabbing of a man in Chemnitz last year, which sparked far-right violence in the eastern German city.
Alaa Sheikhi, a Syrian who arrived in Germany at the height of the migrant and refugee crisis in 2015, was arrested shortly after the August 26, 2018 killing of Daniel Hillig, 35.