Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the country's domestic intelligence service, has been released from his post and been made a secretary at the Interior Ministry. Maassen was sacked over his response to far-right unrest in Chemnitz, where anti-migrant "hunts" were reported at the end of August during a period of unrest set off by the killing of a German man, allegedly at the hands of two foreigners. Maassen was criticized for publicly doubting that the hunts had happened and downplaying the seriousness of far-right violence.