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New Year’s violence between left-wing extremists and police in the eastern Germany city of Leipzig has created a heated political debate. Attacks on police officers have increased in recent years, but police unions have said the violence has “a new quality.”
“This act shows that inhuman violence also comes from the left-wing extremist scene,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told the dpa news agency on Thursday, before adding that a strong state needed a strong police force.