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Juliane Nagel at a demonstration on 31 May – the police action was taken at a protest event the following day
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At a demonstration in Leipzig on Thursday evening, the police temporarily detained the Saxon Left Party member of parliament Juliane Nagel. The Saxony police said on Twitter: "There is the disruption of an official act in the room. Investigations are currently underway into the exact circumstances."
A police spokesman told the dpa news agency that it was not an arrest. Nagel had "become part of a police measure". There is the accusation of a physical attack on police officers in the room.
Nagel, who is also a city councillor in Leipzig and had registered the demonstration on the occasion of Children's Day, expressed herself later in the evening in a video distributed via Twitter. She had observed a measure in which the police had established the identities of two people. "I was standing there, a police officer insulted or insulted me. Then he pushed me out of the way. Then it occurred to him that I had allegedly physically assaulted him."
She was handcuffed and dragged relatively brutally to a police car. "In the police car, I was also told that the officers don't give a shit if I'm a member of parliament." Then her lawyer made phone calls and pointed out to the police "that she can't proceed like this," Nagel said. She was finally released after an identity check.
kfr/dpa