Young people are also on the list of those who will be investigated after “Day X”. A left-wing MP criticizes that they have not yet received personal items such as their phones back.
Around three months after the left-wing radical “Day X” in Leipzig, the police are investigating 1,323 people. The Saxon Interior Ministry gave this number in response to a small request from Left MP Juliane Nagel, as the politician announced. Those involved are being investigated on suspicion of breach of the peace.
Nagel also asked the age of the people who were surrounded by the police on June 3 after the dispersal of a demonstration in Leipzig. Accordingly, 941 of those affected were older than 21. 276 were aged between 18 and 20, and 104 were young people between 14 and 17 years old. In addition, two under-14-year-olds who were under 14 years of age ended up in police custody.
According to the Interior Ministry, 383 cell phones were confiscated from the suspects. The police also seized 133 disguise items and 11 pyrotechnic products.
Nagel: “Absolutely disproportionate approach”
These numbers “speak increasingly clearly for an absolutely disproportionate approach” against the demonstrators, criticized Nagel. It is also a scandal that those affected have not yet gotten their belongings, especially their phones, back.
The Leipzig police chief defended the large-scale operation on “Day X” as legal, but at the same time acknowledged the need for action. One of the problems was that the police significantly underestimated the number of those surrounded. It took about eleven hours until the last people were able to leave the area in a small park.
“Day X” was intended to be a reaction from the left-wing scene to the verdict against left-wing extremist Lina E. on May 31st. There were riots in Leipzig on three different days. The actual demonstration on June 3rd, for which nationwide mobilization was taking place, was banned by the city of Leipzig. Another demonstration with a different motto was initially allowed. In connection with this, the police cauldron arose.
Source: Stern
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