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Participants divided into small groups in the market and kept the minimum distance. The police did not intervene. The meeting broke up around 3:15 p.m., a correspondent for the Keystone-SDA news agency reported.
Basel police were aware of the action on the market, as Martin Schütz, a media spokesman for the Basel Department of Justice and Security, said on demand. “When we got to the site to find a conversation with the participants and let them know that this would not work, the meeting ended again,” said Schütz.
Demo in Bern next to the Bundesplatz
Accumulations of more than five people are currently not allowed under Federal Council Covid Ordinance 19. However, several hundred people were found at the Bundesplatz and Bärenplatz in central Bern, including numerous people from the risk groups, as well as families and children.
The video shows the crowd in Bern. (Video: Keystone-SDA / Stefan Lanz)
Thanks to them, the police decided not to violently dissolve and instead used loudspeakers to call protesters to end the rally. The announcements were recognized with whistling concerts and boos. When leaving, some participants clung to the shoulders, the distance rules were barely observed.
We go to the Bärenplatz in #Bern evacuate after the discussions were useless and ideas were missing. It takes time to point people out; here we cannot always keep distances for a longer period. That is why our employees sometimes wear masks. pic.twitter.com/G3dTS3gw0l
– Bern Cantonal Police (@PoliceBern) May 9, 2020
Nausea irritated
The police limited themselves to checking the people and giving instructions. “There will also be accusations,” announced the city’s security director, Reto Nause.
In a conversation with the Keystone-SDA news agency, he was “irritated” by the behavior of the protesters: “From an epidemiological point of view, my heart is bleeding.” People would have embraced and messed up the rules. He assumed there were new infections.
The protest was mainly directed against the crown measures, which are supposed to violate fundamental rights. “Against progressive disempowerment” was written on a banner, “For the freedom and personal responsibility of another.” A protester demanded »an honest and impartial explanation of the« Crown lie ».
We also give in Zurich and Basel
An estimated two hundred to two hundred people also gathered at Sechseläutenplatz in the city of Zurich on Saturday afternoon. Among other things, they called for the emergency measures to be lifted. The police deployed with several patrol cars. Police said no directions or buses had been given.
Around 100 people gathered on Saturday afternoon in the city of Basel with the same objective. Divided into small groups, they kept the minimum distance. The police did not intervene. The meeting ended in the early afternoon. Police had sought the conversation with the participants and let them know that this was not possible, it was said at the request of the Basel Department of Justice and Security.
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