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Extremism: Around half a million demonstrators against the right

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Around half a million demonstrators against the right

Demonstrators with posters in front of Magdeburg main station. photo

© Simon Kremer/dpa

Last weekend, around half a million people across Germany demonstrated against the right, according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Across Germany last year According to preliminary data, around half a million people demonstrated against the right over the weekend. The Federal Ministry of the Interior spoke of 480,300 people at 133 events in Berlin. Due to the lack of figures from Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saarland, this is a provisional figure, explained a ministry spokesman.

In Berlin alone, according to police reports, more than 150,000 people gathered at the Reichstag building on Saturday to demonstrate for democracy and tolerance. The organizer even spoke of 300,000 participants. When providing information, the Federal Ministry of the Interior regularly refers to police estimates.

The nationwide wave of protests against the right has been going on for more than three weeks now. The trigger was research by the media company Correctiv into a meeting between radical right-wingers and individual politicians from the AfD, CDU and Values Union in Potsdam in November. There, the former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about the concept of so-called remigration. 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.

On Monday people again wanted to take to the streets against the right. For example, around 7,000 participants were expected at a rally in Frankfurt am Main.