The court imposes strict requirements
Lina E. is released from custody
05/31/2023 8:59 p.m
Her mother and the left scene cheer: Lina E. – sentenced to five years and three months in prison for violent crimes in the morning – is released for the time being. The court decided that she could leave detention under certain conditions until the verdict was final.
Lina E., who was sentenced to five years and three months in prison as a left-wing violent criminal, is released after two and a half years in custody. The arrest warrant against them will be suspended against conditions, said Hans Schlueter-Staats, presiding judge of the State Protection Chamber at the Dresden Higher Regional Court, on the evening at the end of the verdict. She only has to serve the remainder of the sentence if the verdict becomes final.
She now has to report to the police twice a week, can only change her place of residence noted in the file with the consent of the court and, after her passport, she must also hand in her identity card.
The higher regional court had sentenced the alleged left-wing extremist Lina E. for several attacks on right-wing extremists. It allowed revision.
The decision to issue the arrest warrant was a pleasant surprise, especially for the mother of the 28-year-old, which culminated in frenetic applause and jeers from the supporters around her. “Five years, three months is for someone her age and otherwise severe and serious,” Schlueter-Staats said in the introduction to the student from Kassel (Hesse). The “greatest burden of the process is the status they’ve achieved here,” he noted personally.
In the evening there were riots in downtown Bremen in response to the conviction of Lina E. Around 300 people, most of whom were masked, gathered at the Steintor and then attacked emergency services “relatively quickly and suddenly,” said a police spokeswoman. Glass bottles and stones were thrown at police officers, and pyrotechnics were also set off. The police spokeswoman was initially unable to provide any information about possible injuries.