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Thousands are demonstrating in the East against high prices
Participants in a demonstration protesting against energy policy meet in front of Schwerin Castle. photo
© Danny Gohlke/dpa
Several thousand people took to the streets in East Germany against the high prices and against the Russia policy and against the energy policy of the federal government.
Thousands of people demonstrated in eastern Germany against the high prices and against Russia and energy policies. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, according to the first counts, a total of more than 11,000 demonstrators came together in about 20 places on Monday, including around 4,500 people in Schwerin, as a police spokesman said in the evening.
According to preliminary information from the police situation center, around 3,000 demonstrators were on the move in Saxony-Anhalt. According to initial information from the police in Thuringia, there were thousands of people. There were initially no concrete figures for Saxony – but according to a police spokeswoman, there were around 1,000 demonstrators at the start of the demonstration at 6:30 p.m. in Leipzig alone.
The protests were directed, among other things, against the corona measures, the war in Ukraine, the energy shortage and rising inflation.