Just four per cent of Germans think the hard left poses no threat to society, with an overwhelming near-six-in-ten saying it does, in research that comes days after serious left-wing riots over the conviction of a politically motivated hammer-attacker.
On May 31st, Lina Engel, the leader of the violent far-left extremist Antifa group known as the Hammerbande or ‘Hammer Gang’ was found guilty by the Dresden Higher Regional Court alongside three other members of the gang for violent assaults on real or alleged neo-Nazis and sentenced to five years and three months in prison.
However, the Federal Public Prosecutor General of Germany based in Karlsruhe has now appealed the sentence, demanding that Engel face at least eight years in prison for her activities, according to a report from the German tabloid Bild.
City authorities in Leipzig said on Sunday that they would forbid another planned left-wing protest for the evening in the city.
This follows two nights of violent clashes between police and protesters, with Leipzig police saying that 50 officers sustained injuries over the course of the weekend.
A spokesman for Leipzig’s city council told the German dpa news agency the ban on another protest on Sunday was based on “the experience of Saturday evening.”
Left-wing protesters wanted to gather to protest a jail term given to a woman for attacking neo-Nazis. Despite court bans, police first tried to accommodate the protest, but broke it up when officers came under attack.
Several police officers were injured in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Saturday in clashes with left-wing protesters.
Leipzig police spokesman Olaf Hoppe described the situation as “very dynamic,” with “sometimes massive clashes here in the south of Leipzig.”
He said that “roughly 1,500 people” turned up to the demonstration, even though several courts had refused to authorize it.
#BREAKING: German police confirm journalists and police officers injured in overnight clashes between police and Antifa extremists in eastern German city of Leipzig; massive police operation underway ahead today’s banned left-wing "Day X" protest pic.twitter.com/OtFDU8zvFS
— I.E.N. (@BreakingIEN) June 3, 2023
Germany is bracing for street protests by the far-left “Antifa” movement this week, after the conviction of Lina E., who was found guilty of physically assaulting neo-Nazis.
Twenty-eight-year-old student Lina E. was sentenced to five years and three months in prison this week for causing bodily harm and belonging to a criminal organization. She and her three co-defendants were found guilty of attacking and seriously injuring suspected right-wing extremists. These acts, the judge said, showed how far militant anti-fascist groups could go.
It is the first such case in for many years, but Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says left-wing extremism is growing. In its latest report, published last year, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) recorded a rise in the number of “violence-oriented” left-wing extremists of around 700 to 10,300 from 2020 to 2021.
The mother of the woman shot and killed by Capitol Police on during the January 6 riot was arrested on Tuesday night following a violent confrontation with a protester outside the Washington DC prison where the rioters are being held.
Micki Witthoeft’s daughter Ashli Babbitt died inside the Capitol, and her mother has since become a passionate defender of those trying to overthrow the 2020 election.
Ashli Babbitt’s mother, Micki Witthoeft, is arrested and charged with assault. pic.twitter.com/nEeSiVdDDs
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 31, 2023
Left-wing extremism is linked to toxic, psychopathic tendencies and narcissism, according to a new study published to the peer-reviewed journal Current Psychology.
“Based on existing research, we expected individuals with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism to also report higher levels of narcissism,” the authors wrote.
As result of the new data, study authors Ann Krispenz and Alex Bertrams have coined a new term for such psychological behavior: the “dark-ego-vehicle principle.”
A sound analysis.
Local opposition to a police training center in Atlanta, Georgia, that began in 2021 has exploded into a nationwide anti-police and environmentalism movement as activists within the state and across the United States call for the end to “Cop City.”
The “Stop Cop City” movement has turned into spurts of violence, resulting in several people arrested on charges of domestic terrorism and one protester shot and killed by police officers, sparking residents’ fury even more.
The Fort Worth Police Department released surveillance and body camera videos of Antifa members attacking people who were protesting a drag event and then resisting arrest from officers after they attempted to bring them in custody for the initial assault.
The third violent Antifa member arrested today at our "family-friendly" drag protest. This person sprayed members of @NCMvmt with pepper spray while they were praying.
It's about time these clowns get arrested 🤡 pic.twitter.com/R4ZFgdVDuy
— Protect Texas Kids (@protecttxkids_) April 23, 2023
On Friday, DeKalb County, Ga., CEO Michael Thurmond issued an executive order closing the popular 140-acre Intrenchment Creek Park after someone discovered booby traps hidden in various places in the park. The traps, which included boards with spikes sticking out of them hidden in the grass and along the trails, appear to have been designed to hurt families who enjoy the park throughout the week.
They need to start shooting these animals more often.
A police helicopter circled so close to a house in the leafy Atlanta neighborhood called Lakewood late on Saturday night that a resident said he could “damn near see the pilot”.
The resident, who asked for anonymity in order to speak with the Guardian, decided to go to a nearby friend’s house. Others were not so lucky. Several dozen other people, including members of a medical crew, were then rousted from campsites on the resident’s property during a post-dawn police raid that followed.
Within hours of arriving in the South River Forest last Sunday, Annie, a tall, dreadlocked woman from “another city” with multiple facial studs, hunkered down. Swarms of police were entering the forest, grabbing people from the shadows and cuffing them.
Moments before, she says, a friend she traveled with had gone off “to take a walk through the forest.” Prosecutors say he was on a mission of domestic terror. He was arrested along with 22 other activists that day and is now being held without bond and facing state charges that include domestic terrorism.
During the first presidential debate in 2020, Joe Biden claimed that the left-wing violent movement known as Antifa was merely “an idea, not an organization.” He was trying to paraphrase a statement by FBI Director Chris Wray who had described Antifa as an ideology or a movement, not an organization, but who also referred to Antifa as a “real thing.”
In other words, FBI Director Wray was taking Antifa seriously as a real movement that was of major concern to law enforcement, while Joe Biden was pooh-poohing Antifa as just “an idea.”
For several months now, groups of domestic terrorists have attempted to thwart the construction of a public safety training facility that the city of Atlanta is building in an unincorporated area of DeKalb County just outside the city.
The emboldened Antifa types took their show on the road to Georgia in the battle over what they call ‘Cop City’. The Leftist attackers have been waging a guerrilla war with firebombs, lasers and guns, but local law enforcement isn’t as crippled as the cops and the feds were in Portland. One of these folks was shot. And others are discovering that their usual tactics aren’t getting them where they want to be.
