While she is being tried in accordance to § 129 StGB, Lina has been in prison almost two years. If the prosecution has its way, which is the same will as that of right-wing agitators, Lina and her three co-defendants will go to prison for many years.
The state, represented by the General Prosecutor’s Office, presents itself in the trial as a defender of freedom of expression and social peace, as a superior and impartial authority that takes action against an organization of criminals. But this is hypocritical: It is the state itself that produces social discord, protects neo-Nazis with its laws and authorities, produces them itself and also hires and tolerates them in its own authorities. In this process, the state is nothing more than a protector and defender of fascists and national socialists, no matter what it may think and say about itself.
We stand by the side of our accused comrades. As long as the roots of fascism are not torn out, we will fight against it, and as long as comrades are threatened and harassed by state repression, we will stand by their side. The current state attacks are also fatal precisely because they are intended to sow fear and insecurity in the anti-fascist structures, especially at the time when autonomous anti-fascism is more bitterly needed than it has been for a long time. We want to express our continuing will to stand in the way of old and new Nazis and fascism in whatever form, as well as our solidarity with all prosecuted anti-fascists.
If a verdict in the Antifa Ost trial is reached – no matter what the outcome – we will take to the streets in Leipzig on the following Saturday and show the state, the judiciary and the police how angry we can be, when our comrades are imprisoned!
Long live autonomous antifascism!
Come to the autonomous day-X protest in Leipzig on the Saturday after the pronouncement of judgement in the Antifa Ost trial!