Leipzig (dpa/sn) - Several activists disrupted the screening of a film about the Maidan protests in Ukraine in Leipzig. The members of the German-Ukrainian artist group Ostov-Collective criticized the pro-Russian attitude of the documentary film "Ukraine on Fire" (2016) produced by US director Oliver Stone. There were fisticuffs between the activists and the organizers. The open-air broadcast at the globalization-critical film festival "Globale" (July 27 - November 1) on Thursday evening was interrupted for a few minutes.
According to the first findings of the police, six people had disturbed the demonstration with drums and tried to take the microphone out of the hand of an organizer. According to the Ostov Collective, the organizer then punched an activist in the face.
According to the police, no one was injured. The police spokesman said that people from the activist group were being investigated for attempted bodily harm. Officials were present during the broadcast.
"Ukraine on Fire" deals, among other things, with the historical background to the Maidan protests in Ukraine in 2013/14 against the then government of Viktor Yanukovych, as the organizers wrote on their website.
