According to the police and organizers, around 300 people demonstrated on Monday evening in the center of Unterhaching for compliance with the corona measures and solidarity with caregivers. With the rally, which was supported cross-party by the CSU, Greens, SPD and FDP, they followed the call from the two students Michael and Florian Dietrich to counter the so-called walks by anti-vaccination campaigners. According to the police, around 200 people took part in the unregistered “walks” that have already taken place in Unterhaching for the first time and for which the right-wing extremist party “Der III. Weg” had called for the first time with leaflets. The police, who were in large numbers, prevented the two groups from meeting by locking them down. The vaccination opponents had to bypass the town center along Münchner Straße. It remained peaceful well into the evening.
At the rally on Rathausplatz and in front of the train station, numerous prominent speakers clearly positioned themselves for a vaccination and the applicable corona measures. The Bavarian Transport and Construction Minister Kerstin Schreyer (CSU) appealed urgently to the citizens of her home community Unterhaching: “Each of us must make a contribution to overcome this pandemic.” She couldn’t understand that people still believed Corona was a cold. The state parliament member Natascha Kohnen (SPD) said: “Now we are outside.” She accused the participants of the other side of being on the “wrong track”. Local politicians from Unterhaching such as the Second Mayor Johanna Zapf (Greens), the CSU parliamentary group leader in the Korbinian Rausch local council and the SPD local association chairwoman Sabine Schmierl wanted to make it clear that many in the community think differently than the 100 to 200 people who are now regularly in Unterhaching take to the streets against the Corona measures every Monday.
Cabaret artist Christian Springer (front) is one of the speakers at the rally.
(Photo: Sebastian Gabriel)
The Greens state parliament members Claudia Köhler and Markus Büchler (both Greens) as well as representatives of several parliamentary groups in the municipal council, the Jusos, the Green Youth and the Young Liberals took the floor. In addition to the political representatives, the cabaret artist Christian Springer, the nurse Christian Markus and the doctor Anna Frangoulis also spoke to the participants of the registered meeting. Cabaret artist Springer said to applause: “We won’t let this bunch of people destroy our democracy.” And to the address of the “strollers”: “It rubs off when you run with the browns.”
Michael and Florian Dietrich, the two organizers of the demo, were surprised at the large number of visitors. “We are more than the others,” said Florian Dietrich with satisfaction. “Society is not split in two equal halves.”