Leipzig (dpa/sn) – Several thousand people from different camps want to demonstrate against high prices and the federal government’s energy policy on Monday (October 3) in Leipzig. Several rallies and elevators with more than 3,000 participants have been registered, said Irena Rudolph-Kokot from the “Leipzig takes place” action network on Friday. It is also about not leaving the field to the anti-democratic forces of the neo-Nazi scene. “We want to be the counterpart to the backward-looking goals of the right-wing scene,” emphasized Rudolph-Kokot.
At the same time there is a lift under the motto “For peace, freedom and self-determination” with 3000 registered participants. The Leipzig police assume that there will be a larger demonstration and will receive support from other federal states, as a spokesman said on Friday. During demonstrations last Monday, the different camps clashed and at least four were injured.
Both groups are now planning a lift over Leipzig’s inner city ring road. Since 1989, the Monday demonstrations and the Ring have been symbols of the peaceful revolution and the struggle of East Germans for freedom and democracy in Leipzig. History was written there and democracy was fought for, emphasized Gesine Oltmanns from the Peaceful Revolution Foundation on Friday. “But if demonstrators and journalists are attacked, that has nothing to do with tradition.”
