LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Several thousand demonstrators turned out Sunday to protest a march by some 150 neo-Nazis in the eastern German city of Leipzig, police said.
While some 4,000 protesters marched peacefully, groups of demonstrators who set up burning trash cans as barricades threw stones and other objects at police and broke windows at a bank.

Police used water cannons and succeeded in keeping apart the far-right sympathizers and counter-demonstrators, but a police officer was injured after being struck with a bottle and 29 people were arrested.

The far-right event was organized by Christian Worch, one of Germany's most visible neo-Nazis. His group was escorted to the train station without marching after police, citing safety concerns, refused to let it take the planned route through a traditionally left-wing suburb.

The protests came two weeks after the far-right National Democratic Party capitalized on discontent over cuts to the welfare state to win 9.2% of the vote in a state election in the eastern state of Saxony, where Leipzig is located.