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Wednesday 18 November 2020
Dissolved Crown Demo
Police use water cannons against protesters
Several thousand people are demonstrating against the reform of the Infection Protection Act in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Most of them do not keep their distance or wear masks. The police cannot enforce the requirement and break the demonstration with water cannons.
The demonstration against the crown measures of the federal government in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is dissolved. As announced by the police after a series of violations of the mask requirement, the meeting leader declared the street meeting closed on June 17. The protesters now have a duty to leave the meeting place. Meanwhile, emergency services also spray protesters with water cannons after they have been asked to leave several times. The protesters screamed and whistled. The agents took many people.
During the protests there were also attacks on emergency services. “Our colleagues were thrown with bottles, stones and firecrackers and attacked with pepper spray,” the authority tweeted. The officers used physical force and pepper spray and arrested some attackers. No numbers were given. Berlin Police Union (GdP) spokesman Benjamin Jendro complained on Twitter that such acts would negligently accept injuries.
Police previously wrote on Twitter that the head of the meeting at the Brandenburg Gate would have one last chance to implement the requirements. He was asked to influence the participants, a police spokeswoman said Wednesday. If that doesn’t work, prepare to break up the meeting. “The use of water cannons cannot then be ruled out,” the authority tweeted. Many of the several thousand protesters did not heed calls to wear mouth and nose protection and keep their distance.
According to a spokesperson for the Berlin police, several thousand protesters have gathered in the Brandenburg Gate area and several hundred protesters in the Marschall Bridge area of Berlin. By one estimate, the number at the Brandenburg Gate is in the middle to upper four-digit range, and at Marschall Bridge in the upper three-digit range, according to the spokesperson.
The protests are also related to the reform of the Infection Protection Act, which will be decided today by the Bundestag and the Bundesrat. Protesters were banned from marching around the Bundestag in the pacified district. Many people do not wear mouth and nose protection.
Even before the threat to break up the demonstrations, the police took complaints before 10.30 am for not wearing masks or for suspected falsification of certificates. The police are in action with up to 2,200 officers from Berlin and other federal states. More recently there have been numerous violations and disputes in the so-called lateral thinking demonstrations in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main.
