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| Germany: Police break up banned far-left protest in Leipzig |
| 2023-06-05 |
| [DW] Left-wing protesters wanted to gather to protest a jail term given to Lina E., a leader of the Antifa group “Hammerbande”, for attacking neo-Nazis. Despite court bans, police first tried to accommodate the protest, but broke it up when officers came under attack. Several coppers were maimed in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Saturday in festivities with left-wing protesters. Leipzig police front man Olaf Hoppe described the situation as "very dynamic," with "sometimes massive festivities here in the south of Leipzig." He said that "roughly 1,500 people" turned up to the demonstration, even though several courts had refused to authorize it. |
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