Left-wing extremist Lina E.has been found guilty in a German court of leading a series of violent attacks on neo-Nazis. The sprawling trial has sparked controversy and fears of extremism driven by leftist ideology.

The male defendants were greeted on Wednesday with a huge round of applause, many of them waving and smiling to friends and relatives in the courtroom. They also then screened their faces from photographers with folders, one of which had the message "Free All Antifas" taped (in English) on its cover. When Lina E. herself was brought in a few minutes later, the applause was even louder and longer, with virtually the whole of the gallery that wasn't press standing up.

Hell yeah

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    They did turn back to the Left first... and the PDS (successor of the GDR's SED and predecessor of the LINKE) ended up doing a bunch of coalitions as junior partner to the SPD and help them out in neoliberal agendas without actually challenging the symptoms and lost most credibility over time.

    The Left party is a mess (I should know, I'm somehow still a member) but the East German state branches are so much worse.