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Many of the street protesters in Germany did not wear masks or keep their distance. The police urged people to disperse, but the crowd did not obey. Some threw bottles and fireworks at the police.
In Berlin, on November 18, 5 to 10,000 people came out to protest against quarantine restrictions due to the spread of the coronavirus infection. He writes about this “Deutsche Welle” on November 18, citing information from the local police.
The order was monitored by 2,000 policemen who were sent to the capital from all over Germany. Many participants did not wear protective masks and did not keep their distance. The police urged people to disperse due to poor hygiene.
Those gathered did not follow instructions, the police used water cannons and tear gas. Some of the protesters threw bottles and fireworks at the police. Law enforcement officers pushed the protesters away from the Brandenburg Gate.
In Berlin, a demonstration against COVID restrictions did not end as planned: Police used a water cannon to force protesters to disperse. Many participants were without masks and did not keep their distance. pic.twitter.com/zzAbWi0sL0
– DW in Russian (@dw_russian) November 18, 2020
The deputy head of the German police union, Jörg Radek, said that among the protesters were many soccer hooligans and right-wing extremists who had previously drawn the attention of the police.
According to the police, during the clashes between the protesters and the police, nine guards were injured. About 190 people were arrested.
Initially, several protests against the restrictive measures were announced in the German capital. In the most massive of them in the Bundestag building, 4 thousand people announced the participation. In connection with the ban by the authorities, the meeting place was moved to the square in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Despite this, protesters began to gather in front of the barriers at the entrance to the Bundestag in the morning, Deutsche Welle notes.
Two more demonstrations are planned near the Bundestag building. Several online activists have called protests without prior notification to the police.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
In the world, according to the US Johns Hopkins University, as of November 18, the number of people infected with coronavirus amounted to almost 56 million people. More than 1.3 million people have died from COVID-19 and about 36 million have recovered. In Germany, almost 854 thousand cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, 13.2 thousand people have died and more than 547 thousand have recovered.
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