The Saxon Left Party chairmen Susanne Schaper and Stefan Hartmann condemned riots and calls for violence at the Leipzig demonstration "We are all LinX". Previously, the applicant for the demonstration, Member of the State Parliament Juliane Nagel, was criticized. “For us, violence is not an acceptable means of political debate. We have made that clear again and again and will continue to do so, ”explained Schaper and Hartmann on Sunday evening. Sayings or banners that are used to convey misanthropic messages or that call for violence are also resolutely rejected.
At the largest radical left demonstration in Leipzig for years, riots broke out on Saturday. Several bank buildings were pelted with stones during the elevator. Bottles and firecrackers flew against the facade of the Leipzig Police Department. The head of the extremism unit of the Saxon police was threatened on a banner. After the official end, hooded men lit a large barricade and another fire in the street in the Connewitz district. Several thousand people took part in the demo with the motto “We are all LinX”. It had been mobilized nationwide.