German 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.
"The scenes at the right-wing extremist march were absolutely repulsive - naked racism, anti-Semitism and hate in their most evil form were on display," he told reporters.
Seibert said Merkel stood in solidarity "with those who peacefully oppose such aggressive, far-right views".
He underlined "how much the chancellor regrets the death of a woman who fell victim" to "an evil attack" by a car driver.
Some of the marchers used Nazi symbols, slogans and gestures that have been explicitly banned in Germany since World War II.
A full day after the violence erupted, the White House insisted Sunday that Trump's condemnation included all such groups. »
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