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Despite the contact restrictions applicable in the wake of the crown pandemic, thousands of supporters from the left scene gathered in Berlin at night. Berlin Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) spoke of a total of “several thousand” RBB participants. The organizers themselves estimated 3,000 protesters.
Geisel criticized “concentrated irrationality” in view of the numerous groups of people in the Kreuzberg district who did not keep the minimum distance. Several officers were injured in the protests by throwing bottles and stones. In all, the police were on the move in the capital with 5,000 emergency services.
According to the senator from the interior, 27 meetings were approved, each with up to 20 participants, including a car parade in the residential area of Grunewald.
In Kreuzberg, on the other hand, a decentralized but unregistered protest was announced: starting at 6 pm, organizers regularly announced new locations in Kreuzberg, to which participants arrived “masked” in various ways, keeping the minimum distance from 1.5 meters. should. According to the AFP news agency, however, many people were sometimes crowded on some streets.
In terms of content, protesters often drew attention to the situation in the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, for example, with signs saying “Leave no one behind.” As in previous years, the meeting was not recorded.
A ZDF camera team was also attacked during a demonstration against contact restrictions in the context of the crown pandemic. According to initial findings, several of the station employees were injured and transferred to the hospital. According to the police, six people have been arrested and background investigations are ongoing.
Meetings also in Hamburg and Leipzig
Protests centered in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg with thousands of people have been violent in the past, but have remained relatively quiet in the younger years. The Myfest neighborhood festival, which usually takes place on the same day, was canceled this year due to the Corona crisis.
There were also gatherings of people in other cities on the occasion of Labor Day: in Hamburg Reeperbahn, the police dissolved an unannounced assembly. According to police estimates, more than 200 people also participated in demonstrations in Leipzig. Police in Chemnitz said that from an unauthorized gathering of around a hundred people, individual police officers attacked when they pointed out the minimum distance.
