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Burning barricades in Leipzig on the edge of the »LinX« demo
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After the "We are all LinX" demo in Leipzig, left-wing member of the state parliament, Juliane Nagel, has come under fire.
Interior Minister Roland Wöller (CDU) said on Saturday that a limit had been crossed if violence was used and death threats were openly shown against investigators at a demo that Nagel had registered and led.
The party should immediately distance itself from its member of the state parliament.
At the left-wing demonstration, a group of black masked people had carried a banner that showed a threat against the head of the extremism unit PTAZ of the Saxon police.
"Soon it will be out of your dream, then you will be in the trunk" read the fabric banner behind the name of the PTAZ boss.
This was interpreted as an allusion to the RAF murder of employer president Hanns-Martin Schleyer.
He was found shot dead in the trunk of a car in 1977.
The Leipzig left-wing delegate Nagel attended the demo on Saturday.
In the evening, she posted a statement on Twitter: “It remains to be said: there were 5,000 anti-fascists against the shift to the right, neo-Nazis, right-wing networks in authorities on the street.
If pyrotechnics now heats the mind, that's wrong.
What doesn't work are crude threats against people, ”she wrote.
The Leipzig Left also turned against violence and threats via Twitter: »#Antifascism: Yes!
Take to the streets for this: Yes!
Violence & threats to people: No, we don't have two opinions, «they wrote.
The majority of the demonstrators were peaceful, a few were not.
"Completely Unacceptable"
Left federal chief Janine Wissler told the portal watson: "Violence against people is completely unacceptable, we reject violence against things."
According to the police, the death threat will have consequences.
The police made video recordings, said state police chief Horst Kretzschmar.
"We will do everything we can to convict the offenders by evaluating the videos." During the demonstration, the police did not withdraw the banner because there was a threat of escalation.
mrc / dpa