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Demonstration against the right: Around 3,300 people joined the rally in Memmingen on January 27th under the motto “Never again is now”.
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Signs in Memmingen, Kempten, Sonthofen, Füssen and Marktoberdorf: Thousands of people took to the streets in Allgäu for demonstrations against the right.
Allgäu
- They showed their face against right-wing extremism, exclusion, hatred and agitation: last week, thousands of people took to the streets in the Allgäu, showing the flag for a colorful, tolerant and diverse society in market squares and at rallies.
There were 3,300 people in Memmingen, 2,000 each in Kempten and Sonthofen, more than 500 in Füssen and around 350 people in Marktoberdorf.
Demos against the right-wing and the AfD in the Allgäu: Thousands take to the streets for democracy - further protests are planned
The demonstrations, which are continuing this weekend, are one of the largest civil movements that the Allgäu and the Federal Republic have ever experienced.
The wave of protests is directed against right-wing extremism and the AfD after it became known that representatives of the party discussed plans for mass deportations of millions of people with and without German passports in a secret meeting with right-wing extremists.
The publication of these right-wing nationalist activities alarmed many people and set in motion a movement that aims to stand up for democracy and human rights.
Across Germany, in cities large and small, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated peacefully.
In the Allgäu they did this last weekend in Kempten, Marktoberdorf, Memmingen, Füssen and Sonthofen.
Kempten
kicked off the long protest weekend
on January 25th, when almost 2,000 people marched through the city center and demonstrated against the AfD and right-wing activities under the heading “Confront the shift to the right”.
The turnout for the Kemptner demo exceeded all expectations.
According to the organizers, the “Kempten against the Right” alliance, 100 demonstrators were expected.
At its peak, the police counted around 1,750 people in the demonstration.
“This time we will not be silent” or “Everyone is welcome in my classroom” could be read on posters, for example.
On Friday afternoon, several hundred participants protested against the right on the Marktoberdorf market square.
© Michael Dürr
According to the police, 3,300 citizens gathered in
Memmingen
under the motto “Never again is now” to send a clear signal against right-wing extremism and for a diverse Germany.
The organizers estimated the number of participants at over 4,000 people.
After the main rally at Memmingen's market square, the demonstrators marched through the city center to the memorial of the synagogue that was destroyed in 1938.
“We are sending an important signal today.
A symbol of democracy, a symbol of humanity and a symbol of what we stand for in Memmingen: We in Memmingen are colorful,” emphasized Mayor Jan Rothenbacher.
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Demos against the right in the Allgäu: Thousands on the streets in Memmingen, Sonthofen, Kempten, Füssen and Marktoberdorf
Around 2,000 people protested in
Sonthofen
against racism, right-wing populism, hatred and anti-Semitism .
They gathered at Oberallgäuer Platz and marched through the city center.
Because “Sonthofen cannot stand aside,” said one participant.
A “jolt through Germany – without Sonthofen” is really not possible, emphasized Miriam Duran from the Integration Advisory Board, which organized the demo.
The Oberallgäu district administrator Indra Baier-Müller also demonstrated and demanded: “Together we must now fight for democracy.”
Sonthofen must not stand aside: 2,000 people joined the rally in Sonthofen.
© Josef Gutsmiedl
There were also demonstrations against right-wing extremism in
Füssen
last weekend.
Around 500 people set an example for democracy and diversity and marched in long lines through Füssen's pedestrian zone.
An older participant was happy: “Füssen has now woken up.”
In
Marktoberdorf,
a broad alliance of representatives of the church, city politics and youth called for people to take to the streets for tolerance and diversity, human rights and democracy.
Despite the pouring rain, hundreds of people followed the call and gathered on the market square in the Ostallgäu district town.
The city's integration officer, Selah Okul, called for people to say no where they encounter hatred, intolerance and exclusion, and to build bridges "regardless of origin and nationality."
Further demos against the right are planned on Saturday, February 3rd, in Kempten (2:30 p.m.) and on Sunday, February 4th, from 5 p.m. in Immenstadt.