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Hundreds turned up to demonstrate for and against the right-wing LEGIDA group, the local group of PEGIDA, the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of Europe.

Pro-refugee demonstrators assembled in numbers in the eastern city of Leipzig to combat the anti-Muslim group's march.

Heavy police presence was arranged to try to prevent violent clashes between the two groups.

In the footage, protesters can be heard chanting while some raise flags in the air before smoke begins to fill the streets.