IIn Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Rhineland-Palatinate, there were elevators against the corona measures and against a possible vaccination requirement on Monday evening.
WDuring an unannounced demonstration against corona measures, people were in Mannheim According to the police, 13 emergency services were injured. Accordingly, the protesters had ignored the ban on gathering and resisted when the police wanted to end their elevator. One of the officers was taken to the hospital. 13 people were arrested because of the attacks, it said. It will be checked whether a demonstrator could be brought before a judge for bodily harm. Another 131 people were reported for violations of the assembly law.
Also in Weinheim (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis) there was a protest with 100 participants. Emergency services, two of whom were injured. Other demonstrations, for example in Heidelberg, took place peacefully. The meetings were not registered.
10,000 demonstrators in Rostock
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the number of participants increased compared to the previous week. As police spokesman said, around 17,000 people in 20 cities took part in registered light walks, rallies and unregistered events on Monday evening. That was again more than twice as many as a week earlier, when, according to the police, around 7,000 people took part.
Above all, they were directed against compulsory vaccination. The partially incomprehensible Corona regulations in individual regions and a division in society due to the restrictions were also criticized. The police only registered isolated violations of requirements until the early evening.
With around 10,000 participants, most of the people came in Rostock together. They moved from the city harbor to the city center, which led to major traffic delays. The police pointed out over the loudspeaker that the event was not authorized. At the end of the elevator there were two provisional arrests and pepper spray was used as participants tried to break through a police cordon.
On posters in Rostock it was said, for example, “We are all not interested in the forced vaccination” or “Corona terror. First the muzzle. Then the deprivation of liberty. Now is it compulsory to have a vaccination? ”In addition, several hundred demonstrators had gathered at the market and asked Lord Mayor Claus Ruhe Madsen (non-party) to show up. It was unclear whether he was at the town hall at all.
In Schwerin about 2500 people protested. They moved from the Pfaffenteich through the northwestern city center. Masks were not worn, regardless of the recommendations of the authorities, and distances were seldom observed. It was similar in Greifswald, where several hundred people gathered for a protest march.
In Neubrandenburg 2000 demonstrators were counted. Almost 800 people protested in Waren. There were further demonstrations in Neustrelitz, Malchow, Röbel (Mecklenburg Lake District), Plau, Boizenburg, Parchim and Ludwigslust (Ludwigslust-Parchim) as well as Torgelow, Wolgast, Anklam and Pasewalk (Vorpommern-Greifswald), Wismar and Gadebusch.
In the peaceful protest marches like in Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Waren people of all age groups had lined up, including families with children. Many wore Christmas lights or candles.
Protests in dozens of places in Saxony-Anhalt
Also in Saxony-Anhalt thousands of people took to the streets. In Magdeburg According to the police, around 3,000 people met on Monday for an unregistered demonstration on Domplatz. They ran at a distance and behaved peacefully, said a police spokeswoman. In addition, according to the information, around 50 people gathered at a registered rally in the state capital.
In Halle Almost 1,500 participants moved through the city, as the police announced. Compared to the previous week there were more, said a police spokeswoman. According to the information, the protest was directed, among other things, against compulsory corona vaccination. The police filed a charge of assault. A few dozen counter-demonstrators opposed the elevator. The two groups did not clash.
Im Burgenlandkreis there were four registered congregations, alone in Naumburg about 1400 participants came together. In Halberstadt (District of Harz), according to the police, around 1200 people took to the streets against the Corona policy in Germany. The action had not been registered, said the police spokeswoman.
According to a police spokeswoman, in the east of the country Wittenberg around 2400 people on the street, in Bitterfeld about 950 people and in Köthen 450 people. Also in Dessau and Zerbst protests ran. There were demonstrations with a few hundred participants in the Saalekreis and in the county Mansfeld-Südharz.
In dozens of cities Saxony opponents of the Corona policy tried again to hold off unauthorized elevators. In some places, such as in Chemnitz According to initial information from the police, the response was significantly lower than in the previous weeks. In several cities it was possible to stop the elevators – around 150 people in each Grimma and Markkleeberg and around 100 in Torgauas the police announced.
The personal details of numerous participants were recorded, in Chemnitz the cell phone was seized by a suspected “lateral thinker”. In Freiberg, a 57-year-old tried to break a police block. He hit a policeman with his fist and injured him slightly.
In the district Saxon Switzerland Eastern Ore Mountains According to the police, there were protests in, among other places Pirna (around 270 people), Bad Schandau (around 210), Bannewitz (around 150), Dippoldiswalde (around 250), Glashütte (around 100), Freital (around 250) and Kreischa (around 300).
In numerous localities in the districts Leipzig and North saxony If there were gatherings of people, elevators were partially stopped, identities were determined and administrative offense reports were made due to violations of the Saxon Corona Emergency Ordinance, the police continued. Accordingly, met about in Zwenkau and Trains 50 people, in Spice up 150, in Böhlen 100, in Markranstädt 100, in Delitzsch 450 and in Oschatz 200.
Partly aggressive mood in Rhineland-Palatinate
Also in Rhineland-Palatinate Hundreds of people demonstrated in different places in the evening. “In Morbach and Idar-Oberstein we found some very aggressive people …, took several people into custody for a short time, issued reprimands and initiated criminal procedural measures, ”said Police Director Ralf Krämer, who was in charge of the entire operation for Morbach, Trier and Idar-Oberstein.
“The municipalities and the police ensure democratic discourse, but only on the basis of applicable laws and the currently valid legal ordinances. The critics of the measures to combat the pandemic must also adhere to this, ”said Krämer.
In Morbach For example, around 6 p.m. the police found around 50 people who had apparently got together to express their displeasure with the Corona regulations. The police asked them to follow the rules. Some reacted aggressively. Two people have been temporarily taken into custody.
In Idar-Oberstein At around 6 p.m. the police registered groups in the pedestrian zone, which at the top had more than 150 people. “A corresponding rally had not been registered here either. The police repeatedly asked the people to comply with the applicable Corona rules and to move away. “They only complied with this request reluctantly.
In September, a customer shot a temporary cashier at a gas station in Idar-Oberstein who had advised him of the corona mask requirement.
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In Mainz People marched through the city center with candles and posters and sometimes gathered in front of the seat of the state parliament. On posters it was said, for example: “No third dictatorship”, “For a mask-free childhood” or “I am resisting”. The police secured traffic for the duration of the move. Everything remained peaceful, said police spokesmen in Mainz and Ludwigshafen.
In Landau, Germersheim and other places in the Front and South Palatinate, a few hundred people were on the street, “but less than a week ago,” said a police spokesman in Ludwigshafen. In addition, up to 150 people had gathered in Speyer for a registered vigil against these so-called Monday walks. In Frankenthal a participant in a demonstration with five people received a criminal complaint for showing the Hitler salute.
Protests also in Berlin and Brandenburg
In Berlin According to the police, there were very few, mostly small, gatherings of opponents of the protective measures. According to the police, around 70 people took part in a meeting of the parish for the Corona protective measures at the Protestant Gethsemane Church in the federal capital, and a few opponents were also there. Observers spoke of around 100 people who took to the streets against the “lateral thinkers” and anti-vaccination scene and the appropriation of the GDR civil rights movement in 1989 by their supporters.
Participants in an elevator against the corona protective measures in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam According to observers, several hundred people. According to Internet forums in Brandenburg, meetings against the corona policy were planned in around 30 cities, including in Eberswalde, Neuruppin and Wittenberge.
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In the south of the state, according to the police, besides Cottbus – where, according to the police, more than 3000 people took part in an unregistered meeting – among others in Finsterwalde well 1000 and in Herzberg around 500 people took part in unregistered meetings and around 750 people in Elsterwerda in a registered meeting against the corona policy. In the region, among other things, criminal proceedings were initiated after an attack on a police officer, said a police spokesman for the Evangelical Press Service (epd) in Cottbus.
