Several hundred police officers were deployed this Sunday, October 25 in Berlin to end a demonstration against anti-coronavirus restrictions, while at the same time an incendiary device was launched against the health authority responsible for piloting the fight against the pandemic .
About 2,000 people gathered in the afternoon in the German capital at the call of the main movement in the country challenging precautionary measures in the face of the pandemic, such as wearing a mask.
This movement was called “Querdenker” or “Anti-conformist”.
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The police prohibited the start of the procession because the participants did not respect instructions such as minimum distances, wearing a mask or barrier gestures.
Despite everything, the participants marched through the city center in several groups.
The police finally intervened to stop demonstrators and carry out identity checks.
"
As a large number of people do not obey our evacuation order, we are instituting proceedings for breach of
anti-corona
restriction measures,
" local police said on Twitter.
The protesters - gathered on the occasion of a world health summit organized from Sunday evening in Berlin and devoted to the Covid-19 pandemic - among other things marched in front of the Berlin buildings of the national health watch authority , The Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
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During the night, an incendiary device was thrown against the facade of this RKI building, responsible for piloting the fight against the epidemic and making recommendations to the government.
He has become the bête noire of the anti-mask movement in Germany.
Police said they were investigating the trail of "
politically motivated arson
."
At the same time, the second wave of the pandemic continues to progress in Germany, a country which until now had been rather spared compared to its neighbors.
The number of new cases in 24 hours has again exceeded the 10,000 threshold on Sunday and two Christmas markets, those in Frankfurt, in the west of the country, and Erfurt, in the east, have been canceled.
In addition, Angela Merkel's conservative party, the Christian Democratic Union CDU, is considering postponing until 2021 a congress scheduled so far in December and intended to designate the likely successor of the Chancellor.
