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More than 10,000 protested, largely without a protective mask, against epidemic restrictions in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, on Saturday, police said.
Stuttgart authorities had warned in advance that the demonstration would break up if its participants did not comply with 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
the epidemiological regulations of Baden-Württemberg do not restrict freedom of assembly.
And Mayor Clemens Maiert drew attention to the fact that thousands of rapes occurred during the demonstration 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.
The demonstration in pictures:
More than 10,000 protested without a mask in Stuttgart
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