Deniers parade in Berlin, we second wave

(ANSA) (ANSA) - BERLIN, AUGUST 01 - While the alert for coronavirus in Germany is getting higher and higher with almost 1000 new infections registered in the last 24 hours, today in Berlin thousands of pandemic denegationists, hostile to the restrictive measures of individual freedoms, have marched in the streets of the centrofino at the Brandenburg Gate. "The end of the pandemic - Freedom Day": this is how the organizers called the mobilization against what the participants believe "the greatest conspiracy theory. The police estimated the presence of 15,000 demonstrators, much less than the 500,000 expected by the sponsors of the initiative Among them ancheno-vax and right-wing extremists.
    Many in the procession sang "we are the second wave" or "resistance" and few wore a mask, so as with the majority of people the normally mandatory physical distance of one and a half meters was not respected.
   With megaphones, the agents repeatedly invited protesters to respect the gestures of the barrier, but were not listened to. The police announced on Twitter that they had "filed a complaint" against the organizer of the event for "non-compliance with hygiene rules".
    There was no shortage of counter-marches, including that of the "grandmothers against the far right" who insulted the negationists, calling them "Nazis".
    Among the most popular slogans of the protesters: "Show me your smile", in reference to the refusal to use masks and "We are noisy, because our freedom is violated" and again "The mask is the Nazi Jewish star of the unvaccinated".
    Criticized by several policy makers, the demonstrators were branded as 'covidiots' by Social Democrat SaskiaEsken, a minority ally of the ruling coalition with Angela Merkel's iconservers. (HANDLE).