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Protest against Corona measures in several German cities

2020-05-18T22:28:58.744Z


After a weekend of numerous protests, opponents of corona politics are also gathering on Monday, especially in eastern Germany. The counter-protest turns out to be smaller where it stirs - for example in Dresden.


After a weekend of numerous protests, opponents of corona politics are also gathering on Monday, especially in eastern Germany. The counter-protest turns out to be smaller where it stirs - for example in Dresden.

Erfurt / Dresden (dpa) - In several cities in Germany, hundreds of people met on Monday evening to demonstrate against the corona restrictions.

The police registered numerous participants, especially in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Thuringia, but there were also protests with several hundred people in Saxony. In Dresden, the anti-Islam and xenophobic movement Pegida with 300 participants demonstrated against the measures to contain the corona pandemic - only ten people took part in a rally.

In Thuringia, the police counted 46 events with around 2900 participants. The largest meetings - each with around 200 participants - took place in Arnstadt, Schmalkalden and Bad Frankenhausen. In Erfurt, the police disbanded a meeting because participants - opponents of pandemic containment measures - did not abide by what was said.

Around 1200 people were counted in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the largest protest walks were according to police, with around 600 participants in Rostock, where the people gossiped through the city center without any speech or transparency, and in Neubrandenburg with around 300 participants. In Rostock, the undeclared demonstration had around twice as many participants as last week.

After the Pegida rally, around 200 people followed a call for an unregistered "walk" through the city center in Dresden. Comparable calls followed around 300 people in Meißen, 220 in Grossenhain, about 100 each in Coswig and in Wilsdruff, as well as smaller groups of people in other cities in Saxony. In Rhineland-Palatinate there was a demo in Bad Marienberg with more than 100 people. According to the police, there were no disruptions.

The President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer, said in the "Handelsblatt" on Monday that activists see the exceptional situation as "an opportunity for the breakdown of globalized liberalism and democracy". According to Kramer, the domestic secret service has a special focus on the attempts by extremists to date to undermine and instrumentalize legitimate civil protests.

In the fight against the corona pandemic, the federal states can largely decide for themselves on the gradual opening of public life. Since Monday, numerous things have been allowed for the first time in weeks.

Source: merkur

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