Photo: DPAGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday slammed as "disgusting" the role of white supremacists in a violent protest in Virginia and an "evil attack" against counter-demonstrators that left one woman dead, her spokesman said. In sharply worded remarks, Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert expressed shock at the weekend rally by Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists in Charlottesville. Seibert said Merkel stood in solidarity "with those who peacefully oppose such aggressive, far-right views". One woman died and 19 people were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of people after the rally by white supremacists turned violent. A full day after the violence erupted, the White House insisted Sunday that Trump's condemnation included all such groups.

Source: The Local August 14, 2017 11:15 UTC