Five-year term for attacking neo-Nazis

DRESDEN: A court in Dresden yesterday sentenced a left-wing extremist woman to more than five years in jail for attacking neo-Nazis, with Germany’s interior ministry warning against “vigilante justice”.

The principal defendant, identified only as Lina E, and three other suspects were convicted for participating in a “criminal organisation” that carried out several assaults against right-wing extremists between 2018 and 2020.

Prosecutors said the group planned the attacks intensively.

Far-left activists have also called for a demonstration in Leipzig on Saturday.