The contrast couldn’t be greater that day in Munich. On the one hand the many who enjoy the warmth and sun, on the other hand the few who fear for the life and limb of their relatives.
The honk is perhaps a good acoustic approximation to describe the feeling in the city on the first day of the war. First, there are the honking cars at the demonstration at the State Chancellery. Because the people with the blue and yellow flags are standing on one side of the Franz-Josef-Strauß-Ring and are looking at the seat of the Bavarian Prime Minister. In between, cars drive and honk their horns, it is a supportive honking, many brake, wave, clench their fists. At regular intervals, a car with a blue and yellow trailer and the inscription “Ukraine Waffen her” drives past and is cheered. But when there is a traffic jam because someone in their car brakes and waves, then those who want to get somewhere quickly also honk their horns, annoyed and jostling. Everyday life and state of emergency in the same tone.
In the evening it is even more extreme when the police close the Europaplatz extensively. On the Prinzregentenstraße it is backed up even more than usual at 5.30 p.m., and the home drivers on the Isar are not making any progress either. Hup concert would be the completely wrong term. More of a horn burst. Below, the people of Munich are already angry, while above the demonstrators still seem dazed. But the anger, it will come that evening (SZ Plus). Singing and screaming, signs and shock, tears and defiance from the hundreds of desperate Munich Ukrainians, and this so deceptive, sunny spring day with thousands of strollers and café-seaters. But they all have one thing in common: that the meaning of February 24, 2022 is probably not even remotely clear to anyone.
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