The extreme right -wing alternative for Germany (AFD) is holding an event in the southern city of Aschaffenburg on Friday, where two people died earlier this week at a knife attack.
“See you in Aschaffenburg,” wrote the extremist leader of the party in the state of Thuringia, Björn Höcke.
Höcke is seen as the leader of the radical wing within the AfD and is known throughout Germany for his fiery rhetoric. He has been convicted twice because he knowingly quoted a forbidden Nazi slogan.
The attack in Aschaffenburg fueled tensions on migration in the run -up to the German elections next month.
The suspect of the stabbing, in which three people were seriously injured, is a 28-year-old Afghan citizen who would be deported.
The AfD, which is currently second in the polls, will hold a meeting in the Schöntal park of the city from 4 p.m. (3 p.m. GMT), where the attack took place on Wednesday.
The city’s central memorial service will take place on Sunday, with the Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder, among others.
It was initially unclear whether family members of the victims would also be present.
An alliance of local organizations is planning an event on Saturday at the Theaterplatz of the city to resist the politicization of the tragedy, in which Mayor Jürgen Herzing will give a speech.
A first commemoration in the park attracted around 3,000 people on Thursday, the police said.