DThroughout Germany, thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday against the restrictions imposed by the corona pandemic. According to police, violent clashes between demonstrators and officials occurred on Alexanderplatz in Berlin.
Major rallies also took place at Munich’s Marienplatz and in Stuttgart. Further meetings were reported from Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund and several Saxon locations. The minimum clearances were often not observed.
The officials on Alexanderplatz had given orders, said the Berlin police in the short message service Twitter. Some protesters were required to provide personal information to report that 86 people had been detained. Criminal proceedings have been initiated, including for assaulting law enforcement officers, police said. Since some protesters had resisted, the officials used “simple physical violence,” it said.
More than a thousand people had gathered for the undeclared demonstration at Alexanderplatz. Numerous demonstrators chanted slogans such as “We are the people” or “Freedom, freedom”, “Resistance” and “People’s traitor”. According to a press spokeswoman, there were also bottle throws at police officers.
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More than ten meetings were registered around the nearby Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. People have been demonstrating there against the pandemic measures for weeks. However, according to the Corona Ordinance, a maximum of 50 people may attend each of the meetings. Also on Saturday, dozens of people attended a meeting at the Reichstag building, with around 30 arrests. The police were out and about in Berlin with a thousand emergency personnel on Saturday.
Among the demonstrators in front of the Reichstag and on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at the Volksbühne were conspiracy theorists and right-wing populists. A poster at the Brandenburg Gate read: “Stop panic politics”.
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Demonstrators in Berlin climbed the “Fountain of Friendship of Nations” on Alexanderplatz
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The cook Attila Hildmann, known for his vegan recipes, was asked by the police in front of the Reichstag to be assigned a different protest site after “emotions” had rocked up in front of the Reichstag in connection with the demonstration, as a spokeswoman said. However, he was not arrested and later left the square, it was said.
Munich police waived eviction
In Munich According to the police, around 3,000 people gathered at central Marienplatz to demonstrate against the corona requirements. Since the number of participants was significantly higher than the registered 80 participants, it was not possible to maintain the minimum distance between the demonstrators, the Munich police said via Twitter.
However, the demonstrators did not respond to the officials’ requests over the loudspeaker to end the meeting or at least move them apart. “For reasons of proportionality”, the head of operations decided against evacuating “the emotional but peaceful gathering”.
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According to the police, seven other rallies against the corona restrictions took place in downtown Munich. A meeting with participants from the right spectrum in front of the town hall had been dissolved, the personal details of 36 demonstrators had been included. There were seven arrests at the rallies in Munich.
Of the Stuttgart policeIt was said that the large-scale rally of the 711 lateral thinking initiative on the Cannstatter Wasen with several thousand demonstrators was “largely peaceful”. The police did not want to disclose the number of participants in the demonstration entitled “Vigil for the Basic Law”.
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The initiative lateral thinking 711 had called for a protest on the Cannstatter Wasen
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In Bremen According to police, around 700 people took part in various demonstrations. The officials initiated several investigations into participants for violating the Assembly Act.
In Dortmund The police resolved two unauthorized rallies with loudspeaker announcements. According to the police, members of the extreme right-wing scene had mingled with the participants. One of them hit a media team’s camera and slightly injured a human. The 23-year-old suspect, who had previously insulted a media representative, was detained.
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“Don’t give Gates a chance”: Conspiracy theorists blame US billionaire Bill Gates for the corona crisis
Credit: dpa / Sebastian Gollnow
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In Cologne According to the police, several hundred people, including children, marched through the city center during an unregistered demonstration. Police President Uwe Jacob made massive criticism of the behavior of the demonstrators: “A large number of the demonstrators have repeatedly asked bystanders to remove their mouthguards and to enter the shops without a mask. We have absolutely no understanding for that. “
In Thuringia Cities also took to the streets more than a thousand people, mostly to demonstrate peacefully against the Corona measures. The largest event took place in Gera with 600 participants, said a spokesman for the police. Ex-Prime Minister Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) was among the demonstrators. 400 people took to the streets in Erfurt. The distance regulations were sometimes not observed. When the officials threatened to dissolve the demonstration, the situation calmed down.
Also in Schwarzenberg, Plauen and other Saxon locations, demonstrations against the Corona measures took place.
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The federal government and the federal states announced on Wednesday that there would be far-reaching easing of the corona requirements, which will vary in size and speed depending on the federal state. The Robert Koch Institute announced on Saturday that the number of reproductive infections among corona infected people in Germany is now over one again. On average, ten infected people infect eleven people.
On Wednesday, the RKI had given the value at 0.65. Since then, the number of reproductions has risen steadily. However, the institute further stated that, due to the statistical fluctuations, which were reinforced by the overall lower numbers, it could not yet be assessed whether the trend of new infections, which had been falling in recent weeks, had continued.
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This is Germany. Those civilized citizens that are considered as a model for the rest. Ha ha.