2023-05-31 22:04:28
After the conviction of the alleged left-wing extremist Lina E., there were demonstrations in several German cities by supporters of the convicts. Sometimes there were riots.
The Dresden Higher Regional Court had sentenced Lina E. to five years and three months in prison for several attacks on right-wing extremists. Nevertheless, the 28-year-old student is released after two and a half years in custody: the arrest warrant was suspended under certain conditions. She only has to serve the remaining sentence if the verdict is final – the court allowed an appeal.
In the court and in front of it there was support for the young woman and her three co-defendants on Wednesday. After the verdict, riots were initially feared. It was unclear in the evening whether the lifting of the arrest warrant would help ease the situation. Parallel to the pronouncement of the verdict, several hundred demonstrators passed through on Wednesday evening Dresden.
In Leipzig gathered later that evening to report the Leipziger Volkszeitung according to “a few hundred people” to demonstrate. The police, who spoke of around 500 people after the end of the demo, stopped the protest procession because a stand rally had been ordered by the assembly authority due to the large number of participants. The initially peaceful atmosphere is said to have become more aggressive in the course of the evening. Demonstrators shouted anti-police slogans. Pyrotechnics were set off and firecrackers were thrown at police officers. A police spokesman said people had been taken into custody. There have been crimes from several groups. For example, demonstrators erected barricades or threw stones, bottles and pyrotechnics at officials. Three police officers were slightly injured by late evening.
In the evening, the police in Leipzig cleared a barricade that demonstrators had erected at an intersection with construction barriers and the contents of glass containers. A clearing tank was also used and a water cannon was ready. In the park, where the meeting took place, however, the situation had calmed down somewhat late in the evening. For the coming Saturday, the radical left scene is mobilizing nationwide for a big “Day X” in Leipzig. The police fear riots and are preparing a large-scale operation.
Out of Bremen Riots were reported in the city center. Around 300 people, most of whom were masked, gathered at the Steintor and then attacked emergency services “relatively quickly and suddenly,” said a police spokeswoman. Glass bottles and stones were thrown at police officers, and pyrotechnics were also set off. The police spokeswoman was initially unable to provide any information about possible injuries. Nothing was initially known about arrests until late Wednesday evening. The officials called on the population to avoid the area. However, according to the spokeswoman, the situation calmed down late in the evening.
In Berlin several hundred sympathizers from the left-wing scene took to the streets. They moved from the State Criminal Police Office on Tempelhofer Damm in the Tempelhof district in the direction of Gneisenaustrasse in Kreuzberg. The police put the number of participants at around 500. The demonstration was largely peaceful, and there were also some scuffles, it said.
A police chief in Hamburg spoke in a first estimate of about 2000 participants of a demo. People marched through the Schanzenviertel from the left center of Rote Flora. On banners they demanded, among other things, “Fight their class justice – it hit some people, we are all meant”. During their march, the demonstrators were accompanied by numerous police officers, and water cannons were ready.
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