Police water cannons are located at the police headquarters in Leipzig. © Hendrik Schmidt/dpa
An urgent application has been filed with the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe against the ban on the "Day X" demonstration of the left-wing radical scene in Leipzig. The urgent application with a constitutional complaint was received in the morning, said a spokesman for the court on Saturday. When exactly he will be decided, he could not. The application will be processed as soon as possible, the spokesman continued.
Karlsruhe/Leipzig - Previously, several media had reported on it.
In left-wing circles, there had been a nationwide mobilization for the solidarity demonstration on Saturday at 17:00 p.m. The occasion is the verdict against the student Lina E. and three co-defendants for attacks on alleged or actual neo-Nazis. The 28-year-old was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Wednesday by the Higher Regional Court of Dresden for left-wing acts of violence.
The city had banned the demonstration planned for Saturday under the slogan "United we stand - In spite of everything, defend autonomous anti-fascism!" The reason for this was threats of violence in social networks, the danger prognosis of the police and assessments by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Appeals against this were unsuccessful before the Administrative Court and the Higher Administrative Court in Saxony. Dpa