Nationwide
Tens of thousands of participants in demonstrations against the right
According to the police, there were around 17,000 demonstrators in Darmstadt, Hesse alone. photo
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Once again, numerous people took to the streets against right-wing extremism. Thousands of demonstrators also gathered in various cities on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of people across Germany are against it on Tuesday Right-wing extremism took to the streets. According to the police, there were around 17,000 demonstrators in Darmstadt, Hesse alone. The rally was peaceful, a police spokeswoman said in the evening. Numerous signs and banners read, among other things: “For democracy – against right-wing extremism” and “Hate is not an opinion.”
There were two different calls for the meeting, one under the motto “for the rule of law and democracy” from a broad civil alliance, including the Greens, CDU, SPD, FDP, the Protestant and the Catholic Church, and one under the motto ” Demonstration against fascism” by several trade unions and the Darmstadt Alliance against the Right.
Around 5,000 people were counted at a rally in Heilbronn in the early evening, but there was still an influx, a police spokesman said. According to the police, around 4,000 people took to the streets in Rottenburg.
Broad alliance
According to police estimates, 2,500 people initially took part in a demonstration in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s state capital Schwerin. A broad alliance of trade unions, parties and associations called for this.
Last weekend, according to police information, more than 900,000 people demonstrated across Germany against right-wing extremism and the protection of democracy.
The protests were triggered by revelations from the Correctiv research center about a meeting of right-wing extremists on November 25th, in which some AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union took part in Potsdam. The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting. 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.