Even before "Day X", there are fierce street battles between left-wing radicals and police in Leipzig. The news ticker.
- Demo ban confirmed: Administrative court in Leipzig rejects urgent application against demo ban
- Riots in Leipzig-Connewitz: Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) condemns violence
- After protests in Leipzig: Members of Die Linke detained by police
Update from 4 June, 6.45 a.m.: In Leipzig, the violent protests continued on Sunday night (4 June). In the city, there are "in various places gatherings of apparently violent" people, tweeted the Saxon police on Saturday evening.
Emergency services were attacked and barricades were erected and set on fire. The police are clearing the barricades in the south of the city with special cars.
"Day X" with riots in Leipzig: Situation calm, but tense
Update from June 3, 18 p.m.: The situation in Leipzig remains calm, but tense. Despite the final ban on a large "Day X" demonstration of the left-wing radical scene, the police are present with a large contingent. She was counting on the influx of thousands of people. In addition, the city hosts the Saxon Cup final, the city festival and a concert by Herbert Grönemeyer. There were checkpoints on access roads to the city as well as at the train station all day. In the early afternoon, several vehicles and garbage cans were on fire. A complaint to the Federal Constitutional Court against the ban on the radical left-wing "Day X" demonstration has now failed, as the dpa news agency reported.
Update from June 3, 12:07 p.m.: Until noon, the situation in Leipzig remained calm. This was announced by a police spokeswoman for the dpa news agency. In preparation for riots on "Day X", checkpoints were set up on access roads to the city. However, a large influx has not been observed so far.
Update from June 3, 10:12 a.m.: According to the authorities, 23 police officers were injured in the riots around "Day X" in Leipzig. Despite the ban on demonstrations, the police are expecting the arrival of more than a thousand people, some of them violent, on Saturday.
Update from June 3, 7:50 a.m.: The police in Leipzig are expecting further riots on today's "Day X". Especially in the Connewitz district, the situation remains tense. According to the police department, several hundred people from a total of twelve federal states are also deployed today, Saturday. Units of the Federal Police are also located in the city.
Violent riots in Leipzig on the night of "Day X"
Update from June 3, 5:48 a.m.: In Leipzig, there were violent clashes between police and left-wing radicals on Saturday night. After an initially peaceful gathering at Wiedebachplatz in the Connewitz district, the situation escalated. Several hundred masked people attacked the police with stones and pyrotechnics, while the officers used tear gas and water cannons. In some streets, the demonstrators erected burning barricades.
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The police cleared the barricades, but according to the security forces, "further crimes were committed" throughout the night, especially in Leipzig's Süpden. It was not until early morning that the situation calmed down again. "Investigations were started for breach of the peace, dangerous bodily injury, assault on police officers, damage to property and a violation of the Explosives Act," the police said. The ban on the demonstration announced for today under the motto "Day X" was confirmed by the administrative court on Friday.
"Day X" in Leipzig: Police forces in front of burning barricades. © Sebastian Willnow
Day X Demo in Leipzig: Administrative Court confirms ban
Update from June 2, 18:35 p.m.: The "Day X" demonstration planned for Saturday after the left-wing extremism verdict against the student Lina E. remains prohibited. Late on Friday afternoon, the administrative court in Leipzig rejected an urgent application against the ban by the city as an assembly authority. It is highly probable that the meeting will be unpeaceful, a court spokesman said. In this respect, the city's hazard prognosis proves to be correct.
From the point of view of the Administrative Court, it must be taken into account in particular that the mobilization on the Internet, including the call for demonstrations, was also directed at a violent autonomous left-wing extremist scene. Even though there has now been a distancing from calls for violence and a peaceful demonstration has recently been called, it remains to be feared that violence will be committed from within the registered assembly.
In addition, the registered number of participants of 400 to 500 does not seem even remotely realistic. A much higher number of participants is to be expected, according to the administrative court. An appeal against the decision of the Administrative Court is possible at the Saxon Higher Administrative Court in Bautzen.
Update from June 2, 16:32 p.m.: Leipzig's Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung (SPD) has called for non-violence in the run-up to the "Day X" proclaimed by the left-wing scene. "We are very concerned about the open, sometimes hateful calls for violence from the anarchist-left-wing extremist milieu in the social media. However, violence must never be a means of political debate," Jung said in a statement on the website of the city of Leipzig. "There is also no such thing as 'good violence' – the judge made this very clear in the trial against Lina E." He appealed to everyone not to join the calls on the Internet.
The "Tag-X" demonstration in Leipzig was officially banned due to security concerns. The organizers want to overturn the ban with an urgent application. A decision is expected later today.
Leftists call for "mass corners" in Leipzig
Update from June 2, 14:27 p.m.: In the Leipzig district of Connewitz, a "mass corner" is called for this evening. Various Antifa and anarchy accounts advertise "taking the streets". Solidarity cannot be banned, the appeals say. "Cornering" is the term used to describe getting together and drinking on a street corner.
Protests for Lina E.: Police check before "Day X" in Leipzig
Update from June 2, 13:59 p.m.: In preparation for "Day X", a "control area" will apply in Leipzig as early as 18:00 p.m. today, covering large parts of the city area in the east, south and west. There, the police can stop and control people without any special reason.
Before "Day X": Maaßen accuses Greens of false scope with case Lina E.
Update from June 2, 13:43 p.m.: Another speech before the "Day X", this time from the controversial ex-president of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: The CDU politician Hans-Georg Maaßen accuses the Greens of a wrong handling of the Lina E. case – the details here.
Police measure against MP Nagel – Conversation with police leadership
Update from June 2, 13:12 p.m.: In the run-up to "Day X," Saxony's Left Party MP Juliane Nagel was detained "as part of the meeting" in Leipzig. Video images of the procedure triggered a wave of criticism. Now there has been a conversation with the Leipzig police chief René Demmler and the Saxon Minister of the Interior. "There was a factual and at the same time critical examination of the police operation and the assembly, for which she was responsible as a leader," the dpa news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying.
Possible allegations would be clarified in a constitutional procedure, said the police spokesman. According to him, numerous anti-police slogans were shouted at the "Day of Youth" demonstration registered by Nagel. It is clear to all those involved that in view of the announced "Day X" there is now "uncertainty and fears of riots". However, Demmler also emphasized that officials would have to act in the event of "violations of norms".
"Day X" in Leipzig: Police expect large-scale operation
Update from June 2, 11:28 a.m.: Parallel to the announced "Day X", the annual city festival, the football match in the Saxon Cup final and a big concert will take place in Leipzig at the weekend, which is why the Leipzig police department is expecting the largest operation in two years. The Saxon police are supported by officials from other federal states, and tighter controls have been announced.
Leipzig prepares for "Day X"
Initial report: Leipzig – The case of Lina E. continues to draw circles. After her conviction, there were violent clashes in Leipzig. In Frankfurt, a spontaneous demonstration escalated. The left-wing scene then called for a large "Day X demo" in Leipzig on Saturday (3 June).
Lina E. and three co-defendants were sentenced to several years in prison for violent attacks on alleged or actual neo-Nazis. The arrest warrant against Lina E. was suspended.
After verdict against Lina E.: "Tag-X-Demo" banned in Leipzig
Now the city of Leipzig has banned the solidarity demonstration for Lina E. According to the "currently recognizable circumstances", the security of holding the planned meeting was "directly endangered". It was to be expected an "unpeaceful course" of the demo, it said in a message from the police.
The organizers, however, want to defend themselves legally: An urgent application against the ban has been received, said the spokesman for the Leipzig Administrative Court on Friday (2 June). The competent Senate will decide on this in the course of the day. The plaintiff was a private individual, the applicant of the demo.
Ban on demonstrations in Connewitz – Faeser condemns riots
The demonstration was to take place under the motto "United we stand – In spite of everything, defend autonomous anti-fascism!" in the Leipzig district of Connewitz. Meanwhile, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser criticized the riots in the strongest terms. "Vigilante justice is not allowed in our country," she told the SPD politician on the sidelines of a visit by the federal police to Munich Airport.
After protests in Leipzig: MPs from Die Linke arrested
After the protests in Leipzig, a member of the state parliament of the Left Party was temporarily detained. The MP Juliane Nagel had been detained "in the context of the assembly", tweeted the police Saxony in the night to Friday. There is a suspicion of the disruption of an official act. The exact circumstances are still being determined.
Nagel herself said in a video distributed on Twitter that she had been the applicant for a demonstration held on Thursday for World Children's Day. After it ended, "people were picked out for alleged crimes" such as masking and freeing prisoners.
While she had observed how two people had been handcuffed while establishing their identity, a police officer had insulted, insulted and "pushed them out of the way," Nagel said. Then the officer "remembered that I allegedly attacked him physically". She was handcuffed and taken to a police car. After the intervention of her lawyer, she was finally released "relatively quickly". (dpa/AFP/frs/lrg)
