Leftists clash with right-wing anti-refugee protesters in Leipzig
After largely disappearing from the German media in recent months, demonstrations by PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) hit Germany's headlines this week after Monday's rally in the eastern German city of Leipzig turned violent.
The city's police reported that some 500 LEGIDA marchers where confronted with a counter movement of around 1,000 people who blocked the route of the rally. The evening became violent, however, after dozens of "hooligans" joined LEGIDA's ranks, with some protesters successfully breaking free from the area secured by police.
Two officers were injured after bottles and fireworks where thrown by right-wing marchers, while a water cannon was also deployed to hold back counter-demonstrators.
... the news about refugees and the growing numbers isn't a new topic. What's changed, of course, are the pictures we've seen from Munich. Their notion of "Volkstod" meaning "death of the people" is a right-wing paranoia which has existed for decades and that's what they fear as a result of the increasing number of refugees.
http://www.dw.com/en/leftists-clash-with-right-wing-anti-refugee-protesters-in-leipzig/a-18715779
Good to see that the German left is not taking RW resistance to refugee settlement lying down.