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 - protesters were arrested.
Children carried questionable posters during the demonstration.
Update from September 27, 11:01 a.m
.: Just on the day that
corona demos escalated
in the British capital,
London
(see original message)
, Great Britain's Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
urged
the
UN member states
to act together in the fight against
future pandemics
.
"If we do not unite and direct our fire against our common enemy, we know that everyone will lose," said Johnson on Saturday at the
general debate of the UN General Assembly
in a video message.
This also includes carefully examining the origin and spread of the novel coronavirus.
The pandemic has
"united
humanity
like never before,"
said Johnson.
But the virus also created an
"extraordinary force of division"
, for example when the countries fought for medical supplies.
After nine months of fighting the pandemic, the international community is
“tattered”
.
Boris Johnson worked with Bill Gates on the five-point plan for Corona
He promised to use the upcoming British
G7 presidency
in the coming year to “bring the world back together after Covid”.
Johnson submitted a
five-point plan
to
his UN colleagues
, which was developed together with the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and the British
Wellcome Trust
.
According to this, a worldwide network is to be created to identify pathogens before they jump from animals to humans.
In the UK, Johnson is due to its handling of the pandemic in the
criticism
.
This week Johnson announced further
restrictions
due to a further increase in the number of cases
.
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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has put forward a five-point plan to fight the corona pandemic.
© Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire / dpa
Escalation in the corona demo: the number of injured police officers is increasing - children with signs with a Nazi quote
Update from September 27, 8:51 a.m
.: 16 people arrested and nine injured police officers (two of them with head injuries who had to be treated in hospital) are the preliminary results of the
corona demos
in
London
(see original report)
.
The city's police told people on
to disperse:
Ten people have been arrested following demonstrations in Trafalgar Square, which moved to Hyde Park.
Sadly, four of our officers have been injured, two require hospital treatment.
We continue to urge crowds to disperse.
This protest is no longer exempt from the regulations.
- MPS Events (@MetPoliceEvents) September 26, 2020
Hundreds of
vaccination opponents
and opponents of the
corona measures took
to the streets on Saturday. The police drove them
apart in
Trafalgar Square
, and clashes broke out.
A protest group in
Hyde Park
was also broken up by the police.
According to the police, the demonstrators did not keep the distance.
Signs read, for example, “No to mandatory vaccines” or
“Covid-1984”
, based on
George Orwell's
dark novel “1984” - but also signs with a slogan attributed to Joseph Goebbels
(see Original message)
.
Anti-Corona demo escalation: police officers injured - children wave signs with Nazi quotes
Original message from September 26th:
London / Munich - An
anti-corona demo in London
has really 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.
Violence ERUPTS as police clash with anti-lockdown protesters in Trafalgar Square, London #TrafalgarSquare Footage available: https://t.co/2SDjsu7pua pic.twitter.com/62klj4w6wI
- Urban Pictures UK (@Urban_Pictures) September 26, 2020
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
.
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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.
(mg) * merkur.de and tz.de are part of the Ippen-Digital network
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 summer.
List of rubric lists: © JUSTIN TALLIS / afp