In the UK, new restrictions have been adopted due to the increasing number of infections.
In contrast, numerous citizens take to the streets.
The police intervene.
In London, thousands of people have taken to the streets against the new restrictions.
This led to clashes with the police and protesters were arrested.
Children carried questionable posters during the demonstration.
London / Munich - An
anti-corona demo in London
has literally escalated.
Ten people were arrested
after clashes between demonstrators and police
.
Four law enforcement officers were injured and two of them had to be
hospitalized
.
Thousands of opponents of the restrictions that
lock down
a quarter of the nation
had gathered in
Trafalgar Square
.
The mood quickly heated up, as the circulating photos show.
It shows how a
woman fell to the ground
who was caught between fronts.
Corona demo in London: Police officers use batons
Rescue workers who are said to have been shot at drove the masses back with their
batons
.
In the front row of the protesters stood a
man wearing a cricket helmet
.
He had a bleeding wound on his face.
The protesters disregarded the rules of distance *, none of them wore a mask * in the photos.
According to the English tabloid, Sun, they shouted "Choose your side" or "We disagree".
Messages such as “No more lies, no more masks, no more lockdown”, “Now it's
tyranny
” or “My body - my choice not
to be
vaccinated against Covid
” should have been read
on posters
.
+
Rough landing: a woman falls during the anti-corona demo.
© JUSTIN TALLIS / afp
Corona demo in London: Cyanide vaccine compared - alleged Goebbels saying quoted
On signs, children recalled a
saying attributed to
Joseph Goebbels
.
"If you
tell
a
big lie
and repeat it often enough, people will believe it in the end," the NSDAP Propaganda Minister is said to have said during the Nazi regime.
In addition, the vaccines *
currently being researched were
compared
with
highly toxic cyanides
.
With
more than 42,000 fatalities
, Great Britain is the most severely affected country in Europe in the corona pandemic *.
A further
6042 new infections were
counted
on Saturday alone
.
Corona demo in London: Nationwide lockdown in Great Britain should be avoided
In order to avoid a renewed nationwide lockdown,
regional measures
have now been
decided.
The new lockdowns will affect parts of Scotland and Wales, all of Northern Ireland and, in England, the North East, Merseyside, Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Leicester and West York regions.
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Protests against the corona measures have also increased in a neighboring German country.
Another tactic in the UK during a study is causing a stir.
In large parts of Europe, the number of infections rose again towards the end of the summer.