knack.news / Monday 19 January 2026
Yesterday, 17th January some authoritarian groups had the chance to express their fantasies hostile to our neighbourhood of Connewitz*. Just a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Connewitz attack**, [the pro-Palestinian groups] Handala, Lotta and co. paraded through Leipzig, with a big demonstration.
With this mobilisation, they also opened our neighbourhood to nazis and their you-tubers. Instead of paying attention to them, they preferred to walk alongside them. While they were trying to vilify Connewitz as a whole, we didn’t forget what this neighbourhood is: an antifascist refuge of various positions. That was gained by struggle, in Saxony, and is again. Today like tomorrow, fascists have no place here.
So we took advantage of this day to flatten the tyres and smash the windows of the car (licence plate L-W2606) of Sebastian Weber, of Weichreite TV. Poor victim, Weichreite, you can take out a subscription to Carglass, because we are going to dismantle your car as often as necessary, until your video channel is finally stopped! It doesn’t matter how often, where you turn up and where you park.
The demonstrations of 17th January used up resources that other place needed more urgently, in these times. If the fascists attack the projects of the left, for us that can only mean : antifascism is still manual labour.
Note from Attaque :
* some pro-Palestinian groups, mostly from other towns, (and moreover close to Islamist and antisemitic positions), demonstrated on Saturday 17th January, in the Connewitz neighbourhood of Leipzig, explicitly aiming at the local autonomous left, guilty of not being aligned with their manichean vision of the world.
** On January 11th 2016, 250-300 neonazis marched in Connewitz, attacked many shops (maninly in Wolfang-Heinze-Straße), some places of organistions and people not of their liking, by taking advantage of a large demonstration (3500 people), of the extreme-right PEGIDA, in the town centre (and when numbers of antifascists happened to be in the town centre to oppose them).
source: Translated by Act for freedom now!