Leipzig: cars set on fire, police attacked – six arrests after the night of the riot | Regional

Several fires were started in Leipzig on Sunday night, police officers were attacked and bank buildings were damaged. Six alleged perpetrators were arrested, including four women.

First, two cars were set on fire in Neue Gutenbergstrasse, and shortly afterwards one in Fleischergasse, which also caused surrounding cars to catch fire. After all, five vehicles burned at the Mercedes dealership on Richard-Lehmann-Straße.

In Connewitz a tram was stopped by burning barricades. Stones and bottles were thrown at police officers while attempting to remove them. According to the first information, nobody was injured. Several bank branches were also pelted with stones or tar.

Two attackers were caught by the police at the Sparkasse in Kantstrasse. A man was found on Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse who allegedly attacked an officer. “A total of six suspects were arrested, four women and two men,” said a police spokeswoman. The alleged left-wing extremists caused six-figure damage to the dealership alone.

As early as Saturday morning, 30 to 40 masked people had thrown stones and bags of paint at a bank branch in the northeast of the city and ignited pyrotechnics. Witnesses alerted the police, who no longer found any suspects.

On Saturday, three left-wing demonstrations were banned in Leipzig. Nevertheless, around 2000 police officers were on duty, as Autonomous groups had previously mobilized nationwide. The police had stressed several times that they were expecting “violent people from the left-wing extremist spectrum”.

In order to enforce the ban, the police had set up a large control area in the city to check incoming traffic. “70 vehicles and 130 people were checked. In individual cases we have issued a residence ban, ”said police spokesman Olaf Hoppe.