Left-wing youth members attacked with pepper spray in Oranienburg

Members of the Left Youth were attacked with pepper spray at the Left Party's office in Oranienburg, north of Berlin. The police have been looking for three people since the afternoon. Shortly before the pepper spray attack, one of them was said to have asked in the Left party office whether one could vote for the AfD here, a police spokesman said based on initial findings.

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. However, investigations into the background are ongoing.

Perpetrators from the right-wing spectrum?

An Instagram post by the Linke Oberhavel said: “We will not be intimidated.” The deputy state chairman of the Left Brandenburg and youth policy spokesman, Marek Lipp, told the dpa that these were probably people who could be assigned to the right-wing spectrum. He had the situation described to him by members of the Left Youth who met there regularly. “It all happened very quickly,” said Lipp. Weeks ago there was already a provocation in front of the office.

The Left responds with a call to the Interior Minister

In a written statement after the incident, the state association of the Left in Brandenburg complained about an increase in right-wing violence. “In just a few weeks, this is the second attack on the Left office in Oranienburg by extreme right-wing violent people,” explained deputy chairman Lipp. This violence is also increasing elsewhere. “I call on Interior Minister Redmann to present an action plan against extreme right-wing violence in order to take action against this worrying development. “That would be much more important than hanging up national flags,” said Lipp.

He referred to an initiative by CDU Interior Minister Jan Redmann, who ordered permanent flagging by his ministry and other authorities since October 3rd - the Day of German Unity.