Police can prevent a march in front of Prime Minister Schwesig's house

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Manuela Schwesig (SPD), the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the Schwerin state parliament

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Just last week, protesters with torches and drums stood in front of the residence of Saxony's Minister of Health, Petra Köpping (SPD).

Now opponents of the current corona policy also wanted to gather in front of the private house of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD).

The action already took place on Monday evening, the police in Schwerin are now examining the risk situation for the members of the state government.

According to the police, around 400 people had joined together for the demonstration.

Many carried flashlights or cell phone lights in front of them.

The elevator that was not registered could be diverted a good hundred meters from Schwesig's house in downtown Schwerin.

Schwesig thanked the emergency services on Twitter on Tuesday.

"I will continue to do everything I can to ensure that our country gets through the corona pandemic and not allow radical forces to divide our country," she wrote.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Interior Minister Christian Ebene (SPD) rated the train as an attempt to "bring about Saxon conditions".

On the NDR, level said that it had a new and "somewhat unbearable quality that one personalizes so strongly and tries to combine decisions with threat scenarios for the family."

The police will respond.

Several preliminary investigations have already been initiated.

In Saxony, demonstrators had threatened the State Minister of Health Köpping in front of her private house.

The politician received expressions of solidarity across party lines.

Tougher pace against corona deniers

The Saxon police had subsequently announced a tougher course against protesters after they had hardly taken action against the inadmissible protests in the state with the highest corona numbers in Germany in the past few weeks.

There had been sharp criticism of that.

The Corona Emergency Ordinance currently only allows rallies in Saxony with a maximum of ten participants and only at one fixed location.

Also this week demonstrators came together for protest marches in the evening, especially after calls from right-wing extremist networks in many cities in Saxony and Thuringia.

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