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The roughly 800 women and transgender people walked through the city center of Basel on winding paths on Monday night with the slogan “Down with the patriarchy.” The police showed a clear presence, but allowed the unauthorized march to pass.
The “Basel of the Revolutionary Youth” and later the “Feminist Strike” movement called for an unauthorized demonstration on International Women’s Day. At 6 pm, at the meeting place on Theaterplatz, the police repeatedly recalled over the loudspeaker that this was an unauthorized demonstration and that action would be taken if public safety was disrupted.
This did not happen until 8 pm The police let go of the demonstration, but blocked several streets with protests with protective gear and rubber bullet launchers, for example the Freie Strasse shopping mile or the Steinenvorstadt disused pub mile. This moved the rally participants to various volts and detours.
The demonstration was kept in peace
The march, which moved from one side to another from the announcement of anti-patriarchal and anti-fascist slogans to the party atmosphere accompanied by music, remained peaceful for a long time. Around 8 p.m., he followed an unknown course past the university hospital towards Petersplatz, the headquarters of the University of Basel.
A week earlier, the police had granted spontaneous permission for an FC Basel fan march through the city center. However, before the canceled Basel Carnival, he had broken up a Kurdish demonstration with “used funds”.
