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DHL aircraft in Leipzig: the company has increased its security measures. (Archive image) / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Security authorities warn of incendiary devices in air freight

German security authorities are warning of "unconventional incendiary devices" sent by unknown persons via freight service providers. They have "knowledge of several parcel shipments that were posted by private individuals at locations in Europe and caught fire on their way to their addressees in se ..

SPD politician Matthias Ecke was brutally attacked and beaten until he was ready for hospitalization during the election campaign for the European elections in Dresden. (Archive photo) / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa

Elections in Saxony overshadowed by crimes

Damaged election posters, party buildings as targets and violent crimes: the elections in Saxony are overshadowed by numerous criminal offenses this year. Now there are calls for faster prosecutions.

A police patrol car with its blue lights switched on / Photo: Daniel Karmann/dpa/Symbolic image

Police find bayonet in car on Polish border

Police have discovered a bayonet ready to hand in a car on the Polish border. Polish border guards and German federal police officers checked the car on the highway 4 in Görlitz on Tuesday, according to the federal police in Ludwigsdorf. They found the weapon in a compartment on the driver's door, t ..

A sprayer sprays a wall / Photo: Jens Kalaene/dpa/Symbolic image

Graffiti removal costs Dresden around 70,000 euros per year

The removal of illegal graffiti from public buildings costs Saxony's state capital Dresden tens of thousands of euros every year. This year alone, contracts worth a total of 60,000 euros have already been awarded, as the city hall announced on Monday. That is half of the annual budget available for ..

Maximilian Krah, top candidate of the AfD for the European elections, speaks at an election event. / Photo: Stefan Puchner/dpa

Krah confirms searches of ex-employees

The AfD's lead candidate in the European elections, Maximilian Krah, has confirmed that the recent searches in Brussels and Strasbourg were directed against a former employee - who, however, no longer works for him. "Because it is misunderstood: There was no search today in an office that belongs to ..

A fake CDU election poster hangs on a pole in Leipzig. / Photo: -/NEWS5/dpa

Election posters damaged - fake CDU poster in circulation

Numerous election posters from various parties were damaged at the weekend in the Zwickau and Vogtland districts. In addition, fake CDU election posters with false slogans were put into circulation in the Free State, the police announced on Monday. According to the report, unknown persons caused dam ..

The word "police" on the hood of a car / Photo: Soeren Stache/dpa

No ticket for first class: man hits train attendant

On a regional train from Zwickau to Dresden, a 21-year-old passenger punched and injured a train attendant during a ticket inspection. When the 42-year-old train attendant expelled him from first class on Saturday evening because his ticket was not valid there, the 21-year-old hit him on the back of ..

Marco Buschmann (FDP), Federal Minister of Justice, gives a press statement on the reform of § 184b StGB and the directive on violence against women in his ministry / Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa

Buschmann: skeptical about the criminal offence of stalking politicians

Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann has reacted skeptically to the Bundesrat initiative from Saxony to provide politicians with greater protection against intimidating attacks on their private lives. "We will take a close look at the initiative. However, I warn against creating the impressio ..

A damaged election poster hangs on the Platz der Demokratie in Weimar / Photo: Martin Schutt/dpa

More than 50 election posters damaged in Dresden

Around 50 damaged election posters have been discovered in two districts of Dresden. According to the police on Wednesday, 26 election posters were discovered sprayed with red and black paint on streets in the Räcknitz area the day before. The following night, a witness in Pieschen observed a man te ..

Sören Pellmann / Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa

MP Pellmann reports repeated threats

Leipzig MP Sören Pellmann (Left Party) has been threatened again, according to his own statements. On Monday morning, dog excrement and a flyer smeared with swastikas and threats were found in the letterbox of his constituency office, he announced on Monday. This was the second time in four days. "I ..

Hendrik Wüst (l, CDU), Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of Saxony, take part in a solidarity rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate after the attack on the SPD MEP Ecke / Photo: Joerg Carstensen/dpa

Ecke reports from hospital: "Overwhelmed by sympathy"

After the attack while putting up election posters in Dresden, SPD MEP Matthias Ecke has sent a message of thanks from the hospital. "I am overwhelmed by your sympathy and solidarity," Ecke wrote in a post on the X platform (previously: Twitter) on Monday. It does him good and gives him strength. Bu ..

MEP Matthias Ecke at the state party conference of the SPD Saxony / Photo: Heiko Rebsch/dpa/Archivbild

Bishops after attack: "The stakes are high"

The outrage over the cowardly and brutal attack on election campaigners in Saxony continues. The bishops in the Free State are also speaking out against violence and attempts at intimidation.

Nancy Faeser (SPD, r) Federal Minister of the Interior and Home Affairs, Michael Stübgen (M), Chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers, and Holger Münch, President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), present the Police Crime Statistics 2023 (PKS) / Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa

Faeser calls for more police presence for campaigners

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser is calling for better protection for politicians and helpers during election campaigns. "We need an even more visible police presence on the ground to protect democrats at campaign stands and events," the SPD politician told the Rheinische Post newspaper ..

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of Saxony / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Kretschmer on the escalation of violence: It's five to twelve

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has condemned the growing aggression and increasing violence within society. "These are enemies of democracy (...) It really is five to twelve," he said on the ARD program "Caren Miosga" on Sunday evening. It was important to put a stop to this. W ..

Participants of a rally on the occasion of an attack on an SPD politician stand on Pohlandplatz / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

After attack on SPD politician: Hundreds at demonstration

After the attack on SPD politician Matthias Ecke, around 2,000 people demonstrated for democracy and against violence in Dresden, according to police reports. They gathered in the Striesen district early on Sunday evening. Ecke had been beaten up there on Friday evening by four young men while putti ..

A street sign "Schandauer Straße" is mounted above a traffic light in Striesen / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa

AfD election campaign stand attacked in Dresden

After the attack on an SPD politician in Dresden, the crimes during the election campaign continue. The city's police are alerted to an attack on an AfD stand and damaged election posters for various parties.

Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), German Foreign Minister / Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa

Baerbock condemns attacks on politicians

Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has sharply criticized the recent attacks on politicians. "Brutal attacks on committed democrats, campaigners and politicians are attacks on the foundation of our #democracy: free elections," the Green politician wrote on the platform X, formerly Twitter, o ..

Janine Wissler, Chairwoman of the Left Party / Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa

Wissler and Schaper: Attack on democracy

Left Party leader Janine Wissler and Saxon party chairwoman Susanne Schaper have described the attacks on campaigners as an "attack on democracy". Democrats must stand together against the danger from the right-wing fringe, they said in a statement from the Left Party state association on Saturday. ..

Malu Dreyer (SPD), Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate / Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa

Dreyer condemns attacks on politicians: "Stunned"

The Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, has strongly condemned the recent attacks on politicians. "The events in Dresden and elsewhere are abhorrent and leave us stunned," the SPD politician said in Mainz on Saturday. "It is a calculated use of violence to intimidate democrats." ..

Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament. / Photo: Omar Havana/AP/dpa

Metsola: "Horrified by vicious attack"

The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has assured SPD MEP Matthias Ecke of her support and solidarity following the attack on him. She was "appalled by the vicious attack", Metsola wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter). Those responsible must be brought to justice. "Matthia ..

Tino Chrupalla, AfD federal chairman and leader of the AfD parliamentary group / Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa

Chrupalla condemns attack on SPD candidate Ecke

The AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla has condemned the brutal attack by unknown persons on the Saxon SPD MEP Matthias Ecke. "We deeply condemn physical attacks against politicians of all parties. Election campaigns must be conducted in a tough and constructive manner, but without violence," wrote the lea ..

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser / Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa

Attack on SPD politician: Faeser announces tough action

Federal politicians have expressed their dismay at an attack on the Saxon MEP Matthias Ecke (SPD) while he was putting up posters in Dresden. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) declared on Saturday that she condemned the serious act of violence in the strongest terms. At the same time, she ..

Member of the European Parliament Matthias Ecke at the state party conference of the SPD Saxony in Chemnitz / Photo: Heiko Rebsch/dpa

SPD MEP attacked while putting up posters

Four unknown persons attack the SPD's leading candidate in the European elections while putting up election posters. A Green Party campaign worker was presumably the victim of the same group of perpetrators.

Armin Schuster, Minister of the Interior in Saxony / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa

Espionage case: Schuster rejects speculation by the AfD

Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) has rejected speculation about the involvement of Saxony's Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the alleged espionage case involving AfD European politician Maximilian Krah. "The highly speculative public allegations made by the AfD against ..

Maximilan Krah, AfD lead candidate for the European elections / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

Krah: Knew Jian G. since 2015

AfD European lead candidate Krah got to know his later colleague Jian G. during his time as a lawyer. In the secret service affair, he accuses the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of a targeted action.