Police in Germany initially said there was no sign of foul play in the death of an immigrant from Eritrea, but an autopsy found that the man had obviously been repeatedly stabbed in the neck and chest.  And this happened in Dresden, the city where thousand of malcontents have been marching against the supposed “Islamization” of Europe.

Local media reports that 20-year-old Khaled Idris Bahray was last seen alive on Monday night.  He was found early Tuesday near the refugee center where he had been staying, the same sort of facility that had attracted a growing number of demonstrators organized by the shadowy group called PEGIDA, or “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West”.  Although the group is vastly outnumbered by anti-racists across the whole of Germany, in eastern Dresden its marches outnumber the opposition.  Pegida rallies are usually marked with the symbols of vague racism and intolerance scattered among the middle class marchers derided as “pinstripe nazis”.

As soon as it got out that the cops, for whatever reason, botched the initial theory of the case local lawmakers sprung into action.  Juliane Nagel of the Left Party urged police to redouble their efforts to determine if racist violence was involved.  Greens party lawmaker Volker Beck went a step further, lodging a complaint against the potential obstruction of justice by police, because it took them 30 hours after the crime to secure evidence at the site.

“I have no understanding for the negligent approach of the investigation authorities,” Beck told the local newspaper Dresden Morgenpost.  He made it clear that any “investigation slip-ups” must be “wholeheartedly” corrected.