Hamburg
2,000 people demonstrate in front of the AfD party headquarters
A demonstration on the occasion of the research by the media company Correctiv in Berlin. People also took to the streets in Hamburg.
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According to Correctiv’s research into the AfD, numerous people demonstrated in Germany. In Hamburg, thousands gathered in front of the state party headquarters, and in Berlin, demonstrators in front of the Chancellery called for a ban.
Around 2,000 people demonstrated in front of the AfD party headquarters in Hamburg on Friday evening. The event was organized by the Jusos Hamburg Nord was registered under the name “Demo against the fascist deportation plans of the AfD and the Union of Values”, as the police announced. “The demonstration was peaceful, there were no crimes,” said a spokesman. Initially, several media outlets reported about it.
Protest in Hamburg after Correctiv research
The meeting was triggered by the research results published on Wednesday by the media company Correctiv on a meeting of radical right-wing circles with extremists and AfD officials in Potsdam. At the meeting, the leader of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement, the Austrian Martin Sellner, presented ideas on how more foreigners could leave Germany and how people with a history of immigration could be pushed to assimilate.
The call for the demonstration in Hamburg said that the plans were “a despicable attack on the lives of many millions of people in Germany and our democracy.” There is no place for fascists and their supporters in Hamburg. The Jusos Hamburg Nord are a district association of the SPD’s youth organization.
Demonstration also in front of the Chancellery
Meanwhile, more demonstrators gathered in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin on Friday. They called for a ban on the AfD to be examined. According to the police, the number of participants was in the “low three-digit” range. The organizers said they were calling on the federal government, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat to examine a ban on the AfD. Climate activist Luisa Neubauer was also at the demonstration. The banners read, among other things, “Democracy in Danger” and “Never again.” According to “Spiegel”, several more demonstrations are planned for the weekend in Germany.