In Munich, the police were kept busy at the weekend.
Various demos were due.
At the main train station there was even an unregistered meeting that made it uncomfortable.
Munich - What a huge number!
An estimated
100 police officers
in heavy gear were on duty at the
main station *
on Sunday evening
.
Background: a "spontaneous meeting" that had come around 5:30 pm.
The entire street was Schiller with
personnel carrier
parked cars, was closed to pedestrians.
The reason: About one hundred people had teamed up at short notice and made a
riot
.
Some of the
hooligan group
yelled at the
police
.
Some of them did not wear masks and did not keep their distance.
Some got
restraining orders
.
It is unclear what motive the action had.
However, there is the assumption that at least some of the
participants belong to the right spectrum
and that this desolate gathering was about the
corona restrictions
- as was later the case with the
lateral thinker demo on Ludwigstrasse
.
A lot had been going on in Munich before.
Several groups demonstrated for different reasons, but all of them peacefully.
On Sunday lunchtime, Munich's Russians campaigned for the
release of the Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny *
.
And the
hairdressers
quietly drew attention to their plight.
An overview.
Demos in Munich: 120 people demand the release of Alexej Navalny
Parallel to the
demonstrations in Russia
, over 120 people also gathered in Munich on Sunday.
They demanded the release of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
The 44-year-old had recovered from a poison attack in Germany and was
arrested in Moscow
on January 17th after returning to his home country
.
There was also a familiar face among the demonstrators in Munich:
Marina Litvinenko (59), widow of the murdered Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko
.
“Freedom for Russia!
Freedom for Navalny, ”shouted the demo participants.
A week ago they were at Odeonsplatz, now at Max-Joseph-Platz.
The location was not chosen by chance: a few years ago a
friend of President Vladimir Putin * is
said to have bought the Palais an der Oper.
The same oligarch has now also declared himself the
owner of a luxury palace on the Black Sea
, which has been causing a stir in Russia for days.
According to a unveiling video by Nawalny, the magnificent building should actually belong to Putin.
Litvinenko: "It is important that the whole world
protests
for
real democracy in Russia
."
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They demand freedom for Alexej Navalny: Russians living in Munich raised their voices peacefully.
© Sigi Jantz
Demos in Munich: Hairdressers leave their lights on all night
Some Munich residents may have wondered on Friday evening why the
lights
were on in
hairdressing salons
even though they are currently closed.
Exactly because of that!
With their
silent protest campaign
, hairdressers across Bavaria want to shed light on their precarious situation - that the lights could soon go out permanently.
That is why it was now
symbolically
throughout Bavaria for 24 hours
: “We leave the light on.” And: “We keep doing this until we
are allowed
to open again
,” says Christian Kaiser, head master of the Munich hairdressing guild.
All salons have been closed since mid-December.
Lockdown
!
The existence of many hairdressers is at stake:
State aid
is a long time coming.
The
bridging aids
have not yet arrived
at Angie Filler-Würstle from Salon Scherenzauber
either: “You have to get through that somehow.” The next action is planned for Sunday to Monday.
The
central association of the German hairdressing trade
called on the owners of the 80,000 hairdressing salons nationwide to leave their lights on for 24 hours.
Demos in Munich: Opponents of vaccinations and lateral thinkers take to the streets
Opponents of the Corona measures
protested
from their vehicles
with banners and loudspeaker announcements on Saturday afternoon
.
Mainly they were concerned with the
supposed threat of forced vaccinations
.
The parade with around 100 cars started at 2 p.m. at Spiridon-Louis-Ring and ended at around 3:40 p.m. at Theresienwiese.
According to the police, the demonstration went without incident.
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Demo against the Corona measures: The lateral thinkers took to the streets in Munich.
© Sigi Jantz
With a similar protest request, the
lateral thinking initiative
had registered a demo in front of the Bavarian Administrative
Court
for Sunday. Originally, the lateral thinkers wanted to move through the city center with 500 people. The district administration department had forbidden this and instead allowed a
stationary meeting
from 5.45 p.m. to 8 p.m. with 200 participants. The organizers went to the
administrative court
. This rejected the urgent application for
reasons of infection protection
. Then it went to the next instance, the
Bavarian Administrative
Court
. This approved the application in parts, so that in the end 300 participants were admitted - time and place remained the same.
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