May demos in Hamburg: night in the Schanze is quiet NDR.de – News

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Status: 05/01/2022 07:58 a.m

The night of May 1 passed peacefully in Hamburg. A total of 24 demonstrations have been registered for the weekend in Hamburg. At the beginning there was a rally in the Schanzenviertel on Saturday.


Some pyrotechnics will be ignited in front of the stage in the evening.

According to the police, around 550 demonstrators gathered in front of the Sternschanze S-Bahn station by the evening under the motto “Class festival – against state and capital”. Two participants ignited so-called smoke pots, the police arrested the two for the time being. In the evening some pyrotechnics were burned off in front of the stage, otherwise the situation was peaceful. The organizer, known from left-wing autonomous circles, had registered 500 participants.

In the past, left-wing demonstrators had repeatedly engaged in violent clashes with the police in the Schanzenviertel around May 1st. After the serious riots surrounding the G20 summit in 2017, however, things had been rather quiet in recent years.

NDR 90.3 reporter Kai Salander at a May Day demonstration in Hamburg's Lenzsiedlung. © NDR 90.3 Photo: Kai Salander

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Two larger rallies on Sunday

On Sunday, the police have two larger demos in view. The first protest march starts at 4 p.m. and leads through large parts of Wandsbek. The second demo route runs in Wilhelmsburg from Inselpark to Harburger Chaussee, starting at 6 p.m.

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Around 1,000 police officers planned

The State Criminal Police Office expects between 1,000 and 1,500 participants to attend both protests, including left-wing activists. Around 1,000 Hamburg police officers are scheduled for the May demos, and around 400 additional officers from all areas are on alert.

DGB is also taking to the streets

For the first time after two years of the pandemic, no corona rules apply to the demonstrations on the 1st of May weekend. Also the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) Hamburg calls for rallies on “Labor Day”. It starts on Sunday at 10 a.m. in Harburg and Bergedorf. An hour later, at 11 a.m., the participants set off from Heussweg in Eimsbüttel.

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