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The alleged German left-wing extremist Lina E. has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for multiple attacks on right-wing extremists.

The State Security Chamber of the Higher Regional Court of Dresden imposed prison sentences of two years to five months and three years and three months on the three co-defendants. Supporters and sympathizers protested loudly in the hall against the verdict. After the verdict was announced, the presiding judge, Hans Schlueter-Staats, interrupted the hearing because onlookers chanted “Faschofreunde” and “Scheiss Klassenjustiz” at the bench.

According to the state protection chamber, the 28-year-old student and a co-defendant of the same age are guilty of membership of a criminal organization; a 37 year old and another 28 year old for their support.

E. and two of them were also charged with dangerous bodily harm, a fourth with complicity. The state protection chamber remained under the criminal complaints of the federal prosecutor’s office, which had demanded eight years in prison for E., who came from Kassel in Hesse, and between two years and nine months and three years and nine months for the three men .

The federal prosecutor accused the defendants of brutally beating up actual or alleged supporters of the right-wing scene in Leipzig, Wurzen and Eisenach between 2018 and 2020. E. is seen by the OM as the head of the group. In at least two cases she is said to have been in charge. A key witness had accused the suspect.

According to the indictment, 13 people were injured, two of them possibly life-threatening. Another accusation was that the accused had rejected both the democratic constitutional state and the state monopoly on the use of force.

For the defense, acquittal was only possible after the trial, they consider the trial to be politically motivated and conducted in the wrong place. They saw their clients exposed to bias and accused federal prosecutors of applying different standards when sentencing right-wing and left-wing criminals. The court was charged with partiality.

When the verdict was announced, Lina E. in particular was received by relatives and supporters in the hall with thunderous applause and chants and celebrated for minutes. They protested when the verdict was announced and onlookers insulted the court. In front of the building on the outskirts of the city, which houses the highly secured hall of the Saxon judiciary, several dozen supporters, mainly from Leipzig, demonstrated and expressed their solidarity with Lina E. (aeg / sda / dpa)