Thousands nationwide in corona protests
Created: 01/03/2022Updated: 01/03/2022, 9:50 PM
Several thousand people gathered in Rostock for the weekly demonstration against the Corona measures.
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The year starts again with protests against the state corona measures.
Thousands take to the streets in many German cities on Monday - often not approved.
Berlin - More than 20,000 people took to the streets against the state Corona measures in numerous German cities on Monday - often during unauthorized "walks".
In some places there were also gatherings of supporters of the measures and vaccination.
Almost 3,000 people demonstrated against the Corona policy in Nuremberg - twice as many as expected.
As the police headquarters announced, there were no incidents after the start of the “Monday walk”.
In many other Bavarian cities and communities, opponents of the Corona measures also called for so-called Monday walks as a sign of protest.
Many cities had banned non-stationary rallies and threatened participants in undeclared demonstrations with fines.
Thousands in Rostock
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, according to a police spokesman, a total of almost 10,000 people in more than 20 cities took part in registered light walks, rallies and unregistered silent marches. In Rostock - the city with the largest of these demos in the country to date - according to the police, several thousand demonstrators gathered again in the evening. According to the information, around 1,600 people came together in the state capital Schwerin, and several hundred on the Greifswald market square. According to initial estimates by the police, a good 2,000 demonstrators gathered in the Mecklenburg Lake District. In Greifswald, the critics of the Corona measures faced a large group of counter-demonstrators.
According to the police in Thuringia, more than 8,000 people took part in unannounced protests against corona protective measures.
The state police department assumed that this number would be five-digit in the course of the evening.
Apart from small scuffles, the demonstrations have so far been peaceful, said a spokesman.
Most of the participants were counted in Gera - around 2000. According to police estimates, there were around 1000 demonstrators each in Altenburg and Saalfeld, and 500 in Nordhausen.
Counter-actions too
In Saxony, several thousand people took to the streets in illegal protests against Corona measures. According to the police, up to 1,000 people came together in Bautzen alone. In the east Saxon city, in which twelve police officers had been injured in action the week before, two demonstrations had formed. As a police spokesman announced on request, both elevators could be stopped. The situation has remained clear, it said. Firecrackers could be heard here and there.
In Brandenburg, too, the protests by critics of the corona measures and anti-vaccination campaigns continued across the country.
Counter-actions were announced in many places.
In Potsdam, the “Potsdam shows its colors” alliance called on Monday not to leave the city to the opponents of the Corona measures.
Mayor Mike Schubert (SPD) said at a rally that the people made it clear with their presence that there was not only protest against the current measures.
The togetherness at a registered demonstration shows that it is possible to express one's opinion without breaking rules or laws.
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Several thousand people demonstrated against the Corona measures in Baden-Württemberg. A police spokesman said that around 2000 participants gathered for a so-called walk in Friedrichshafen on Monday evening. The participants spontaneously agreed to meet on social networks to take this action from Ravensburg to Friedrichshafen. It is now up to the municipality to dissolve the unregistered meeting. In Ravensburg there were no large gatherings, said the spokesman in the evening.
The police in Fulda (Hesse) disbanded a gathering of opponents of the current Corona measures in the evening.
A police spokesman said a meeting participant attacked the emergency services.
The officers used pepper spray and the person was arrested.
According to the police, the gathering was broken up because no masks were worn and no distances were observed.
In addition, there was no leader of the meeting.
In other Hessian cities, too, people took to the streets in the evening to demonstrate against the Corona measures - for example in Frankfurt, Kassel or Gießen.
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