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Rainer Schneuwly / Keystone-SDA
![After the morning of March, the police cordoned off the Bundesplatz.]()
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After the morning of March, the police cordoned off the Bundesplatz.
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![Individual demonstrators have nevertheless settled in front of the barriers.]()
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Individual demonstrators have nevertheless settled in front of the barriers.
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![This protester is fighting for more freedom.]()
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This protester is fighting for more freedom.
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![Cleared by the police: The Bundesplatz in Bern on Saturday afternoon.]()
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Cleared by the police: The Bundesplatz in Bern on Saturday afternoon.
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In Bern, the police are preparing for a rally that opponents of the measures against the corona pandemic have announced on Saturday. Shortly after 1 p.m., police officers blocked off the Bundesplatz with metal grids for this purpose.
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The weekly market on the square in front of the parliament building had just ended. In the early Saturday afternoon, a correspondent from the Keystone-SDA news agency watched dozens of police officers around the square. Several vans were also parked.
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The police had announced via short message service Twitter that it was increasingly present in Bern because of renewed calls for a demonstration despite the ban on the assembly. That is why, after the Märit, she had to “now block the Bundesplatz again”. It is currently a matter of avoiding crowds of people, and Berner Verkehrsbetriebe Bernmobil has also announced various diversions.
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Hundreds of people had already gathered in several Swiss cities last weekend and demonstrated against the federal government’s measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus.
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Despite a ban on the assembly due to Corona, Corona opponents had already demonstrated on the Bundesplatz on May 2 and 9. The rallies could only be resolved slowly, as the canton police wrote on Thursday. Factual discussions with the rally participants were hardly possible. (SDA / rad)
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