This Monday, too, tens of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against the corona policy. In Bautzen, participants threw fireworks at police officers, and officers were injured in Pirmasens.
In numerous German cities, tens of thousands of people took to the streets against Corona protective measures on Monday. According to the police, emergency services wanted to stop an elevator in Bautzen in Saxony. The police wrote on Twitter that they were “massively” pelted with fireworks and bottles.
In the Engelsdorf district of Leipzig, an elevator with 250 people was stopped, said a spokesman for the local police. In the Leipzig area and northern Saxony alone, there had been around 30 calls for corona protests. Several hundred people in various groups took to the streets in Freiberg. A large number of inadmissible gatherings have been dissolved, the police said.
Injured police officers in Pirmasens
According to the police, around 1,000 people demonstrated in Saarbrücken and Fulda in Hesse. There were protest marches in other Hessian cities. In Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg, the police spoke of several hundred participants, including in Mannheim and there were demonstrations in Pforzheim.
Corona protests in Ravensburg: Participants in a so-called walk against the corona measures go through the city center. (Source: Felix Kästle / dpa)
In Pirmasens, two participants in a meeting attacked emergency services. One of the two attackers had previously been advised of the obligation to wear a mask. Police said three officers were slightly injured.
9,000 demonstrators in the south of Brandenburg
There were also demonstrations in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt. According to the police, around 3,000 people demonstrated in Cottbus, in the south of Brandenburg there were a total of around 9,000 participants at 16 locations. A protest march in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam counted 300 opponents of corona measures.
According to the police, around 2,700 people gathered in Schwerin on Monday evening, despite the cold and slippery roads, to make their displeasure against the ongoing restrictions and plans of the federal government for mandatory vaccination clear. Also in Rostock Several thousand demonstrators gathered.
Called for 60 demos in Thuringia
In Magdeburg According to the first information provided by the police, around 3,000 people moved from Domplatz through the city. In Hall said a police spokesman for around 1,500 demonstrators. Protests against corona measures were also announced in other cities in Saxony-Anhalt.
There were also demonstrations again in numerous Thuringian locations. In Gera alone, around 2,000 people took to the streets in the evening, as a police spokeswoman said. In neighboring Altenburg there were 1,300 people. There were also larger gatherings or elevators with several hundred participants in Stadtilm, Hermsdorf, Saalfeld and Eisenach. A total of 60 places called for protests.