Nearly 150,000 people demonstrated silently at the call of a multitude of civil society organizations. This is the first large gathering in the capital since the publication, in mid-January, of a secret far-right project aimed at deporting German citizens of foreign origin deemed undesirable.

400 gatherings of this type were recorded throughout the country, bringing together 1.6 million people according to police sources. “The AfD stinks”, “the Nazis are pigs’, are among the most familiar slogans brandished by the crowd.