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“Hate is not an opinion” reads one poster.
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In the southwest, thousands again protested against the right.
In Heilbronn, around 5,000 people were counted at a rally early on Tuesday evening, but there were still crowds, a police spokesman reported.
Heilbronn - In Rottenburg, around 4,000 people took to the streets, as the Reutlingen police headquarters announced upon request.
There were therefore no special incidents.
Stefan Reiner from the Heilbronn network against the right had already said before the event that he was expecting several thousand people.
It was therefore decided to move the protest to the market square and to forego the demonstration for security reasons.
In Rottenburg, the organizers combined the rally with the memory of the former President of Württemberg and honorary citizen of the city, Eugen Bolz, who was executed by the National Socialists in 1945.
The city and the Eugen Bolz Foundation therefore organize a memorial day for Bolz every year on January 23rd.
The trigger for the nationwide protests were the revelations by the Correctiv research center about a meeting of right-wing extremists on November 25th, in which AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union took part in Potsdam.
The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting.
When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country - even under duress.
According to police and organizers, at least 110,000 people demonstrated against right-wing extremism and for democracy in the southwest over the weekend.
According to the responsible police headquarters, the meetings remained uneventful and peaceful.
dpa