The city of Leipzig has banned a rally scheduled for Saturday for the convicted student Lina E. Public safety is directly endangered by the gathering. The police are still preparing for a large-scale operation.
The city of Leipzig has banned a left-wing demonstration scheduled for Saturday. About that Regulatory office informed on Thursday evening.
A statement said: “The basis for the ban are the risk forecasts of the Leipzig police department and the situation assessments of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the Free State of Saxony and other findings of the assembly authority.” According to the currently recognizable circumstances, public safety is directly endangered when the meeting is held. An “unpeaceful course of the meeting is to be expected”.
For Saturday, the left scene had called for the so-called Day X. The background is the verdict in the left-wing extremism trial of Lina E. Extensive demonstrations were announced. The city already had the right to assemble on weekends on Tuesday restricted by general decree and special control zones established.
Prison sentences for Lina E. and three men
The 28-year-old Lina E. was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Wednesday at the Dresden Higher Regional Court for attacking suspected neo-Nazis and forming a criminal organization. The sentence was suspended subject to conditions. Three co-defendants received prison sentences of between two years and five months and three years and three months.
MDR (pri)/dpa