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Police in Germany have fired water cannon, smoke grenades<\/strong>, and tear gas to disperse a large group of\u00a0protesters, staging a rally to disrupt a neo-Nazi\u00a0<\/strong>march\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0eastern city of Leipzig\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

FRANKFURT (Germany) \u2014 Around 69 police officers were injured while\u00a023 protesters detained during a protest in the\u00a0German city of Leipzig, according to local police<\/a><\/span> news release.<\/p>\n

Some 50 police cars were also damaged in the riots Saturday evening.\u00a0Authorities, however, didn\u2019t say how many protesters were injured.<\/p>\n

Left-wing protesters in the eastern German town of Leipzig clashed with police on Saturday, leaving scores of officers injured and almost two dozen demonstrators detained, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The clashes came as hundreds of left-wing activists demonstrated against a rally held by far-right protesters in the town, police said. Police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the rioters who threw stones at police, erected street blocks and burned containers.<\/p>\n

During the violence in S\u00fcdvorstadt rubbish containers were set ablaze, a bus stop demolished and windows broken.\u00a0A police spokeswoman said masked persons in leftist ranks had attacked police “massively” during the rally by “a thousand violently-inclined leftist autonomists.”<\/p>\n

The clashes on the fringe of a leftist counter-rally were described by Leipzig’s Social Democrat (SPD) mayor Burkhard Jung as “shocking.”<\/p>\n

“That is open street terror,” Jung said, adding that “criminals” had discredited important, peaceful protest against neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n

The student group “Durchgezahlt,” meaning “all counted” in English, said 2,500 people had taken part in various counter-demonstrations against the neo-Nazi rally for which originally 600 participants had been expected.<\/p>\n

Leipzig, a booming metropole of 560,000 with an innovative reputation, lies in Saxony, a regional state where elsewhere this year 126 attacks on hostels for asylum seekers, mostly arson, have been registered.<\/p>\n

That count represented a quarter of all such incidents in Germany in 2015, said the monitoring website “Mediendienst Integration” on Friday.<\/p>\n

Protestant pastor and youth worker Lothar K\u00f6nig, 61, who had turned up to the leftist rally with his loudspeaker van, was accused by police of resisting officers and breaching the peace.\u00a0The German news agency DPA said he was released on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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