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More than twenty thousand people have demonstrated in Berlin since this morning. against anti-Covid measures sent by the German government to counter the return of the virus. On Wednesday the city authorities had prohibited the march, for public health reasons, arguing that it would be impossible to enforce the rules on social distancing. Yesterday an administrative court agreed with the protesters: yes at the meeting, no masks are required but the 1.5 meter rule between person and person is respected. In the afternoon, the police interrupted the march and dispersed the 18,000 protesters: the minimum distance was not respected, despite the continuous requests: nothing else could be done than to disperse the crowd, the agents said. Many people stayed in the place shouting Resistance! and We are the people !, and sang the German national anthem.
Deployed police: bottle drops and 200 arrests
Three thousand policemen were deployed in case of clashes. The organizers of the march (the second in a month in Germany) had arranged an appointment with supporters from all over Europe for what was called the festival of freedom and peace, which was attended by a diverse crowd of Self-styled freethinkers, non-vax militants, far-right sympathizers. Young and old, families with children had gathered under the Brandenburg Gate, one of the emblematic places of the German capital. In the afternoon, however, more than 2,000 right-wing extremists gathered in front of the Russian embassy: there was a stone and bottle throwing, and the police, who described the atmosphere created by the protesters as extremely aggressive, arrested 200 people. during the riots, including vegan chef (and conspirator) Attila Hildmann.
Slogans and flags
I am here to defend our fundamental freedoms, he told the French Press a man named Stefan, 43, with a shaved skull and a T-shirt that says Think with your head. The government must be careful, says Christina Holz, a 22-year-old student, who wears a T-shirt celebrating the liberation of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Many flags: American, Russian, Third Reich. T-shirts with the Q become a symbol of the conspiracy theories of the QAnon group. The inspirer of the rally, IT entrepreneur Michael Ballweg at the head of the Stuttgart 711 Nonconformist Thinkers group, said that banning the march would be an attack on the German constitution that protects the right of expression. Ballweg Followers Dictatorial measures are defined as those decided by the German government to combat the return of the pandemic (this week about 1,500 new cases a day). They demand the resignation of Angela Merkel and new elections for October 2020.
The far right and the chancellor
Many members of the extreme right have invited people to take to the streets with anti-masks. The deputy of Alternative for Germany He called the demonstration a victory for freedom. Several leftist organizations have launched counter-demonstrations in support of the government line. The chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday he warned the Germans against an evolution of the pandemic that promises to be even more difficult in the coming months.
August 29, 2020 (change August 29, 2020 | 18:49)
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