Anti-refugee right-wingers go on rampage in Leipzig, say police

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Source: Reuters

Over 200 masked right-wing supporters, carrying placards with racist overtones, went on a rampage in the eastern city of Leipzig on Monday night, throwing fireworks, breaking windows and vandalizing buildings, police said.

Emotions are running high in German cities after gangs of young migrant men sexually assaulted women at New Year in mass attacks in Cologne and other towns.

The attacks have deepened public scepticism towards Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy and her mantra that Germany can cope with the 1.1 million migrants who arrived in the country last year. It has also fueled right-wing groups.

As roughly 2,000 anti-Muslim "LEGIDA" protesters marched peacefully in the city center, police said a separate group of 211 people walked through the southern Connewitz district before setting of fireworks, erecting barricades and vandalizing property. The top floor of one building caught fire.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-assaults-idUSKCN0UQ0WS20160112

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1. Germany arrests 211 far-right extremists in Leipzig

Germany arrests 211 far-right extremists in Leipzig

Berlin (AFP) - German police said Tuesday they have arrested 211 far-right extremists who went on a rampage on the sidelines of a xenophobic rally in Leipzig, setting cars on fire and smashing windows.

The extremists are known to police as football hooligans, and had wrought chaos Monday at an area of the eastern city known to be left-leaning, just as thousands of far-right supporters of the anti-migrant PEGIDA movement were gathering at a peaceful demonstration, authorities said.

News website Spiegel Online also published a picture of a kebab shop with a smashed window.

Germany has been outraged by a rash of crime targeting women at New Year's festivities in Cologne in the west that has been blamed on migrants.

http://news.yahoo.com/germany-arrests-211-far-extremists-leipzig-103620810.html

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2. Here's a google translation of a German account

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2Flegida-und-pegida-250-rechte-hooligans-randalieren-in-leipzig-a-1071525.html&edit-text=

The Hooligans invaded, according to the news agency dpa completely unexpectedly in Connewitz, the district is considered a stronghold left autonomous in Leipzig. In a central road, several hundred meters long Wolfgang-Heinze-Street, a showcase was hardly remained whole. Whether kebab shop, trendy bar, curtain shop or music store - they were victims of vandalism all. Police cordoned off several streets. Water cannon drove on in Connewitz, a helicopter circled in the air.

"Time Online" reported on the Twitter account of their "malfunction indicator" - observed on the newspaper right activities - neo-Nazis had the attack in Leipzig planned and previously announced as a "storm in Leipzig".

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3. Horrifying

the new Kristallnacht