Brand attack in Leipzig-Connewitz: Escaping political acts of violence!

Brand attack in Leipzig-Connewitz: Escaping political acts of violence!

On the night of Saturday there was a preliminary highlight of the left -wing extremist activities in the Connewitz district of Leipzig, when unknown perpetrators set fire to barrier. These incidents were carried out in the context of a protest in which around 20 people took part with a banner. Connewitz is known as a hotspot of the left scene, which puts the events in this district in a larger political context. According to Borkener Zeitung, three members of the group with pyrotechnics set a fire at a construction site that was quickly deleted. During the campaign, stones and color bags were also thrown to the office of the civil police officer, which led to several damaged windows. The perpetrators were able to move out of the crime scene undetected while the police were determined for breach of the peace.

A few hours earlier, another sacrilege occurred in the same area. An excavator on the construction site of Hentschke Bau GmbH was set on fire, which put the management of the company in great excitement. Managing Director Jörg Drews expressed dismay about the incident and emphasized that a total of ten arbitrums have been committed to the company's construction sites in recent years. According to MDR, a political motive could be behind this damage. A letter of confession published on the left -wing extremist website "Indymedia" mentions resistance to "Fascism Saxon Saxon" as reasons for the attack.

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The Hentschke Bau GmbH had previously made major donations to the AfD and Ostsachsen.tv, which is considered the possible trigger for the attacks. According to estimates, the total damage due to the repeated attacks amounts to almost two million euros. Drews criticized the allegedly inadequate measures of the judiciary and politics in dealing with politically motivated crimes. The highest representative of the CDU, such as Bautzen's mayor Karsten Vogt and District Administrator Udo Witschas, condemned the arson attack violently and demanded the persecution of the perpetrators, especially with reference that no appropriate perpetrators were determined in previous attacks.

The left-wing extremism not only represents a growing security problem in Saxony. According to the information of the Constitutional Protection, the number of left-wing extremist criminal offenses in 2023 is Crimes increased, an increase of 10.4 % compared to the previous year. Violent acts in this context have also increased, and a total of 727 offenses have been registered, which corresponds to an increase of 20.8 %.

The situation in Connewitz and the repeated attacks on the construction sites of Hentschke Bau GmbH illustrate the tense situation in Leipzig and the influence of political motives on crime in the region. It remains to be seen how the investigation progresses and what measures are taken on the part of the authorities in order to counteract increasing violence.