More than 10,000 protested in Stuttgart, most without a mask

More than 10,000 protested, largely without a protective mask, against epidemic restrictions in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, on Saturday, police said.

The Stuttgart authorities, according to the MTI, warned in advance that the demonstration would dissolve if its participants did not comply with the mandatory regulations at the time of the coronavirus epidemic, but hundreds of police officers commanded at the protest site did not intervene.

The demonstration was largely peaceful, although Bildt Day reported that protesters threw stones at police several times.

Sven Metis, a spokesman for the Stuttgart police noted that epidemiological regulations in Baden-Württemberg do not restrict freedom of assembly. Clemens maiert and the mayor drew attention to the fact that thousands of rapes occurred during the protest and that anyone who did not wear a mask or did not observe the prescribed distance could be fined.

The protesters marched through the streets of Stuttgart at the behest of the Querdenken movement. Querdenken is a loosely organized movement in Germany whose members deny the existence of the coronavirus or the severity of the epidemic, spread conspiracy theories about it, are vaccinated, and have protested the epidemic restrictions several times in recent times.