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A police raid has been taking place on Eisenbahnstraße in Leipzig since this afternoon. No details regarding the reasons behind it have yet emerged. Meanwhile, a high-profile appeal trial at the Regional Court ended with an acquittal after three days of hearings. The LZ summarises the key events from Tuesday, 15 September 2026, in Leipzig, Saxony and beyond.
Raid on Eisenbahnstraße, reasons initially unclear
On Tuesday afternoon, law enforcement officers arrived in the Eisenbahnstraße area of Leipzig to carry out a raid. This was reported by the TAG24 news portal.
According to the report, investigators are focusing on several pubs and bars between Hermann-Liebmann-Straße and Elisabethstraße. TAG24 reports, citing the police headquarters, that operations are underway on site on behalf of the Criminal Investigation Department (Kripo). It appears that individuals have also been detained. Further details or rumours that the operation may be linked to drug-related crime are not yet known or confirmed.
Leipzig’s Eisenbahnstraße, named after a former railway line, runs for almost two and a half kilometres through the east of the city. It is known for its high proportion of migrants, its lively atmosphere and its diverse range of restaurants and bars. For a long time, it was primarily associated with drugs and crime – a reality that still cannot be denied. At the same time, however, the area around the Magistrale is increasingly becoming known as a trendy neighbourhood for younger people, students and creative types, thanks to relatively affordable rents.
Did she pass on address details to far-left extremists? Regional Court finds no evidence
She is alleged to have abused her professional position in a hospital’s debt collection department to illegally obtain address details and pass them on to far-left extremists: However, the Leipzig Regional Court today acquitted a 56-year-old accountant of the charge of aiding and abetting two counts of grievous bodily harm, one of which was in conjunction with trespass. This overturned a decision by the court of first instance, which had imposed a suspended prison sentence of one and a half years.
In the view of the criminal division, which heard the appeal, it was no longer possible to determine when and by whom the personal data that had been spied on was disclosed to third parties. Specifically, the case concerned two brutal attacks in 2018 and 2019, which remain unsolved to this day but are highly likely to be attributed to the far-left extremist milieu. The court stated that whilst the defendant’s involvement in passing on the victims’ details was possible, it could not be proven due to a lack of evidence.
Despite the acquittal, the presiding judge emphasised the woman’s moral complicity; in her closing statement, she had acknowledged her anti-fascist activism without specifically addressing the allegations. The verdict is not yet final. Read more about this here
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What the LZ reported on today:
Appeal trial over data leak: Regional Court acquits accountant
The City Council met: Even the AfU confirms that there is no replacement for the Capa-Wäldchen Video
The City Council met: How Leipzig is losing funds for heat protection Video
Hello Leipzig: How Tuesday 15 September 2026 begins
What else was happening:
The A14 was closed following an accident between Mutzschen and Grimma.
Burnt food with major consequences this morning in Schleußig.
Announcement yes, specifics no: Chancellor Friedrich Merz (70, CDU) held out the prospect of relief on petrol and diesel prices.
Actor Ralf Richter (‘Das Boot’) died last night aged 69.
Calendar note: The Lehman Brothers collapse heralded global upheaval 18 years ago
What might the Lehmann brothers have said? The collapse of the long-established US investment bank Lehman Brothers – whose origins trace back to German immigrants in the 19th century – sent shockwaves around the world on 15 September 2008. With highly complex financial structures, including those involving subprime mortgages, the New Yorkers had gambled away a fortune. They were not the only ones. And warning signs that something fundamental was going wrong had long since become apparent.
Yet the Lehman collapse – with its images of unemployed bankers consternated as they carried away their boxes – became the symbol of a global financial crisis, to which politicians responded with bailout programmes worth billions. Fears of a ‘super-crash’ in the globally interconnected banking world did little to allay these concerns.
On 5 October 2008, the then Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück, reassured German savers that their deposits were safe and that the government would stand behind them.
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