The organizer of an anti-right-wing demonstration with at least 80,000 people in Munich canceled the event due to overcrowding. A police spokesperson told the German news agency this on Sunday. The safety of the participants can no longer be guaranteed. The police assumed there were at least 80,000 demonstrators, the organizer said there were 250,000. On Friday, a demonstration against the right and the AfD in Hamburg was canceled due to the large number of people.
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According to police, hundreds of thousands of people across the country took a stand this weekend for cohesion and tolerance in society.
The protest was caused by the revelations of the Correctiv research center about a meeting of right-wing extremists in Potsdam on November 25, 2023, in which AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union participated. . The former head of Austria’s right-wing extremist Identitarian movement, Martin Sellner, said he was talking about “remigration”. Right-wing extremists usually mean that a large number of people of foreign origin must leave the country – also under duress.
Many demonstrators in Munich used posters against right-wing extremist ideas: ‘Remigrate on your knees’, ‘Let’s learn from history instead of repeating it’, ‘No tolerance for intolerance’, ‘AfD – A nightmare for Germany ‘ and ‘Brown Bottles do not belong in the waste glass container in the Bundestag’, it said. (sda/dpa)
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