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An autonomous man throws a bottle at the police building.
Photo: Sebastian Willnow / dpa
In the course of a demonstration under the motto "We are all LinX" there were isolated riots on Saturday in Leipzig.
When the train passed the Leipzig Police Department, bottles and fireworks were thrown against the building.
Along the demo route, individual black-hooded people kept picking up cobblestones and hurling them against the panes of several bank buildings;
A house with luxurious student apartments was also the goal.
After the official end of the elevator, masked people set fire to barricades in the Connewitz district.
The police opened water cannons, which in turn were pelted with stones.
As a police spokeswoman said, the Leipzig public prosecutor has initiated investigations into violations of the Assembly Act.
A large number of participants were masked.
According to the police, up to 3500 people took part in the protest march organized by a campaign alliance.
The occasion was the trial against the Leipzig student Lina E. and three co-defendants from Leipzig and Berlin for the formation of a criminal organization and attacks on alleged rights.
Among other things, demands were made for the woman to be released immediately.
The police were initially unable to draw a conclusion on the day of the demonstration.
In the early evening the events in Connewitz had not yet calmed down.
A police helicopter circled over the neighborhood.
The police were on duty on Saturday with a large contingent.
The Saxon officials had support from Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, among others.
nek / dpa