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Demonstration in Frankfurt (Oder): About 2000 people protested in the Brandenburg capital
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Germany has been reunited for 32 years.
On the Day of German Unity, several thousand people gathered to protest in various East German cities.
The demonstrations were directed, among other things, against the current policy of the federal government, inflation, the war in Ukraine and the corona measures.
According to initial police reports, around 10,000 people took to the streets in Gera (Thuringia).
Participants in a protest march in the evening called for an end to sanctions against Russia.
Björn Höcke, party and faction leader of the AfD in Thuringia, took part in the march.
The AfD is observed in Thuringia by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
According to the police in Gera, around 370 people had gathered earlier in the afternoon under the motto "Destroy the right-wing unit".
According to the police, more than 7,000 demonstrators gathered in about 15 cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the Day of German Unity, including Schwerin, Wismar, Ludwigslust, Neubrandenburg, Güstrow and Waren.
In Saxony, too, people demonstrated in many places.
In the center of Leipzig there was, among other things, an elevator under the motto "For peace, freedom and self-determination" with numbers of participants in the lower four-digit range, as the police announced.
In Dresden, people came together for two meetings, including the AfD.
According to police reports, around 1,400 people had already moved through downtown Dresden on Sunday.
A good dozen people demonstrated against the "walk" directed by the Free Saxony party, which is assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum.
According to the police, around 2,700 demonstrators were out and about in the city center of Saxony-Anhalt's state capital Magdeburg early on Monday evening.
According to a dpa reporter, around 2,000 people walked through the city center in Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg.
According to the police, a demonstration with several hundred participants was registered for Monday evening in Cottbus, the second largest city in Brandenburg.
Actions had also been registered in other cities in East Germany, such as Plauen in Saxony.
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