Left-wing youth attacked with pepper spray in Oranienburg

Members of the Left Youth were attacked with pepper spray in the Left Party's office in Oranienburg in the afternoon. The police are looking for three people. One of them is said to have said shortly before the pepper spray attack in the Left office whether one could vote for the AfD here, as a police spokesman described the incident based on previous information.

According to police, one person was taken to hospital after the attack and another was treated as an outpatient. The police launched a search for the perpetrators, which continued into the early evening. The incident is said to have occurred shortly after 2 p.m., a police department leader said. A political motive is obvious.

The deputy state chairman of the Left Brandenburg and youth policy spokesman, Marek Lipp, told the dpa that during a meeting of the left-wing youth, people who were presumably from the right-wing spectrum stormed into the room. He had the situation described to him by members of the Left Youth who met there regularly. “It all happened very quickly,” said Lipp.