2:14 p.m. | Regulatory office recommends: empty trash cans on the property
The public order office had recommended residents and service providers in the music district to return garbage cans to the property “promptly” after they had been emptied. Because of the protests that have been announced, there is a risk “that waste containers will be misused as barricades or set on fire”.
2:09 p.m. | Mobilization for “Day X”: Demo ban and lawsuit
After protests on Wednesday in several German cities and a nationwide mobilization of the left-wing scene for “Day X” in Leipzig, the city had registered for Saturday on Thursday Demonstration of the left scene forbidden. “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,” said the regulatory office. An “unpeaceful course of the meeting is to be expected”.
An urgent application by the demo organizers against the ban was rejected by the administrative court in Leipzig on Friday evening.
2:05 p.m. | Overview of “Day X”: Why is it in the case of Lina E.?
The student Lina E. and three co-defendants are in the largest left-wing extremism process in years because of the Formation of a criminal organization and convicted of aggravated assault. After almost 100 days of negotiations, the judge at the Dresden Higher Regional Court sentenced Lina E. to five years and three months in prison on Wednesday. Three co-defendants aged 28 to 37 received prison sentences of between two years and five months and three years and three months.
After the verdict in the trial against the student Lina E., the left-wing scene called for demos to come to the trade fair city across Germany and Europe.
2:00 p.m. | Controls of the arrival traffic: until noon no large influx
The Police have been checking streets and train arrivals at Leipzig Central Station since Friday evening. were for control areas been defined, which include large parts of Leipzig’s east, west and south. The police expect several thousand people. By midday, however, no major influx had been observed at the checkpoints.
Saxony’s police had requested reinforcements from other federal states and from the federal police. She called the large-scale operation at the weekend the “biggest in Leipzig for two years”.