After the Dresden verdict against Lina E., protests and, in some cases, riots broke out in several cities. According to the police, officials in Bremen and Leipzig were thrown at with pyrotechnics.
After the Dresden court judgment against Lina E. and three co-defendants, there were protests in several cities in the evening. The police reported riots from Bremen and Leipzig.
In Leipzig, demonstrators shouted anti-police slogans, pyrotechnics were detonated and police officers were thrown with firecrackers. A police spokesman said there had been crimes from several groups. For example, demonstrators erected barricades and threw stones, bottles and pyrotechnics at officials. Four emergency services were slightly injured, the police said in the night. There were no arrests.
In the evening, the police in Leipzig cleared a barricade that demonstrators had erected at an intersection with construction barriers and the contents of glass containers. A clearing tank was used. A water cannon was also available. The police put the number of protesters at around 800. In the park where the meeting took place, however, the situation had calmed down somewhat late in the evening. Emergency services were still out and about in the city during the night.
2000 people in Hamburg on the streets
According to police reports, around 300 mostly masked people had gathered at the Steintor near the city center in Bremen. They attacked emergency services “relatively quickly and suddenly,” said a police spokeswoman. Glass bottles and stones were thrown at police officers and pyrotechnics were ignited.
A police car was also damaged. According to the police spokeswoman, no one was injured. Around 70 suspects were provisionally arrested. The situation calmed down late in the evening. According to the police, they were deployed with numerous forces. A water cannon and an armored vehicle were also ready.
Parallel to the pronouncement of the verdict, several hundred demonstrators also marched through Dresden in the evening, and there were also solidarity demos in Berlin and Hamburg. A head of operations for the Hamburg police spoke in an initial estimate of around 2,000 participants. The supporters of the left scene moved from the Rote Flora through the Schanzenviertel. On banners they demanded, among other things, “Fight their class justice – it hit some people, we are all meant”. During their march, the demonstrators were accompanied by the police. Water cannons were ready.
Bottles and pyrotechnics were thrown at police officers. According to a spokesman, three officers were slightly injured. There were also five arrests. Despite everything, the demonstration was “predominantly peaceful,” said a police spokesman.
Course in Berlin “largely peaceful”
In Berlin, several hundred sympathizers took to the streets. They moved from the State Criminal Police Office in the Tempelhof district in the direction of Kreuzberg. The police put the number of participants at around 500. The demonstration was largely peaceful. There were some scuffles, it said.
For Saturday, the radical left scene is calling for national participation in a big “Day X” in Leipzig. The police fear riots and are preparing a large-scale operation.
The Dresden Higher Regional Court had sentenced the student Lina E. to five years and three months in prison on Wednesday morning for membership in a criminal organization. The state security chamber imposed prison sentences of between two years and five months and three years and three months for the three co-defendants.