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In Stuttgart, in southwestern Germany, Michael Ballweg, who launched the protest, said 5,000 people demonstrated, compared to a few hundred in a protest a week ago, which was also party-independent.
Police did not give an estimate of the number of participants, but said the meeting ended without incident and that the protesters kept the distance between them more or less required by the rules in force at the time of the epidemic.
Ballweg said the Querdenken movement, which is organizing the protest, calls for the restoration of fundamental rights, freedom of assembly and religion. Local authorities banned the movement’s demonstration, but the German Constitutional Court reversed the decision.
In Berlin, police said about 300 people protested at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in the Mitte district. Police in the capital only allowed two events of 20 each, and a quarter of an hour before the start of the demonstration, warned those trying to reach Twitter that the scene was already “full.”
At the time of the epidemic, gatherings of up to 20 people are allowed in Berlin, and starting Monday the rigor will be reduced, events of up to 50 people can be held.
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