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Germany’s Central Council of Muslims will hold a peace rally in front of the Austrian Embassy in Berlin on Friday, the council announced.
The main Islamic body called the demonstration after a series of deadly terrorist attacks with Islamist motives that rocked France and Austria in recent weeks.
The event is scheduled to begin at 3 pm local time (2 pm UTC).
An interreligious group prayer session is planned. Attendees will also be able to place flowers and light candles to commemorate their loved ones.
Who will be at the rally?
The President of the Central Council, Aiman Mazyek, will give a short speech.
The Protestant Bishop of Berlin, Christian Stäblein, and the Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Berlin, Heiner Koch, will attend together with the president of the General Rabbinical Conference of Germany, Rabbi Andreas Nachama.
They will remember the victims and express their condolences to the families.
Austrian Ambassador Peter Huber will also be at the event which will take place under current regulations on coronavirus.
A series of terrorist attacks
On Monday, an Austrian-born man shot and killed four people in a popular nightlife area in central Vienna. At least 22 other people were injured in the attack. The attacker was a known Islamic extremist who had spent time in prison, according to authorities.
Last week, a gunman carried out an attack on the Notre Dame basilica in the city of Nice in France, killing three people.
In mid-October, French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded near his school in Paris by an 18-year-old man for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
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