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Corona demo in Nuremberg: A woman holds up a sign that reads "Vaccination makes you free"
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After demonstrations against the Corona measures in Nuremberg, the police are investigating sedition.
Individual participants are said to have shown anti-Semitic posters and symbols.
A police spokesman said on Tuesday that these were signs that read "Vaccination makes you free," said a police spokesman.
In addition, a demonstrator wore a red and black Star of David on his clothes.
On Sunday, the alliance "Students stand up" called for a demonstration on the fairground, to which, according to police, 10,000 to 12,000 people had come.
The police assign this alliance to the "lateral thinker" scene.
Shield secured
Almost at the same time, the AfD called for a rally in the city center with the two Bundestag parliamentary group leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, at which the police counted 2,500 people.
When the AfD rally was over, the emergency services saw a woman with a sign "Vaccination makes you free," as a police spokesman said.
The police took the woman's details and secured the sign.
A criminal case for sedition has been initiated, said the police spokesman.
A photo from the edge of the demonstration shows a woman with a sign that reads "Vaccination Makes You Free".
According to the police, criminal proceedings are also ongoing against the demonstrator with the Star of David at the demonstration around the Nuremberg festival square.
The investigations of the state security were still ongoing for the second poster, which was probably also to be seen at the large demonstration.
The research and information center for anti-Semitism in Bavaria rated the words “vaccinate makes you free” as anti-Semitic.
The words "Arbeit macht frei" were written on the gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Today it is regarded as a cynical symbol for the suffering of millions of people in the Nazi extermination camps.
The National Socialists murdered more than 1.1 million people in Auschwitz and the neighboring Birkenau concentration camp.
Most of the victims were Jews.
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