A law on compulsory vaccination is to be passed in the Bundestag. Vaccination opponents demonstrate in Berlin. The news in the blog.
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The Bundestag is voting on compulsory corona vaccination this Thursday.
The scene of pandemic deniers, lateral thinkers and opponents of vaccination has called for a demonstration.
The route starts at the Brandenburg Gate.
We report live on the blog.
Demonstration train moves in the direction of Bellevue Palace
12.10 p.m.: The demonstration train has reached the Großer Stern and is turning right onto the Spreeweg in the direction of Bellevue Palace. There should be a first interim rally in front of the Federal President’s seat.
Demonstration train starts
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11:31 am: The demonstration train has now set off from the Brandenburg Gate in the direction of the Victory Column. The route, which is around seven kilometers long in total, leads past Bellevue Castle, the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Moabit and the Charité.
Demonstration against compulsory corona vaccination: police with around 130 forces in action
11.10 a.m.: According to spokeswoman Anja Dierschke, the Berlin police are deployed around the demonstrations with around 130 forces – including forces from the water protection and traffic police. According to estimates by the operations management, around 350 people had gathered at the Brandenburg Gate. The protest was reported as 500. “We are assuming there will be no problems,” Dierschke continued. The protest march was supposed to start at eleven o’clock. However, he is still standing at the Brandenburg Gate.
Speakers agree with the demonstrators
10:33 am: With sometimes martial slogans, the speakers get the participants of the demonstration in the right mood. “Anyone who votes for this law today will be hunted down,” said one young woman. The parliamentarians could be happy that there is no death penalty in Germany. The protesters are still standing at the starting point in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
“Grannies against the right” are there for a counter-demo
9.45 a.m.: In front of the Holocaust memorial on Ebertstrasse, a few meters from the anti-vaccination protesters, the “grandmas against the right” are standing. “We stand here regularly when there is a risk that the memorial will become the backdrop for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,” says Hanna Müller. The protest march wants to pass there later. Since there is a counter-demonstration at the memorial with the grandmothers, they will probably change sides of the street. “We’re practically standing here as protection,” Müller continued.
Demo against compulsory vaccination: Inflow initially manageable
9.15 a.m: The flow of people to the demonstration on Thursday morning is initially manageable. Around 9 a.m., a few dozen people gathered in front of the Reichstag building for a rally. A few hundred more are standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate, where a demonstration is about to start.
Demo against compulsory corona vaccination: That’s what the demonstrators are planning
9 clock: The Bundestag starts voting at 9 a.m. The opponents wanted to hold a rally in front of the Reichstag from 7 a.m. and march through the government district from 9 a.m. The protest begins at the Brandenburg Gate. From there it should go via Straße des 17. Juni and the Großer Stern to Moabit, past the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the main train station and the Charité through Mitte back to the Brandenburg Gate. Motorists must be prepared for restrictions along the route.
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The demonstration route on Thursday (9 a.m. – 2 p.m.)
March 18th Square (Brandenburg Gate)
June 17 Street
great star
Spreeweg (intermediate rally at Bellevue Palace)
Paulstraße
Luneburg Street
Alt-Moabit (intermediate rally at the Federal Ministry of the Interior)
Rahel-Hirsch-Strasse
Hugo Preuss Bridge
Alexanderufer
Margarete-Steffin-Strasse
Unterbaumstrasse
Schuhmannstrasse
Luisenstraße
Reinhardtstrasse
Friedrichstraße
Behrenstrasse
Ebertstraße
March 18 Square
At the peak of the pandemic and the associated restrictions, opponents of the measures brought thousands, sometimes even tens of thousands, of people onto the streets of Berlin. Right-wing extremists and citizens of the Reich protested side by side with conspiracy believers and esotericists. Attacks on police officers and members of the press were part of the order of the day.
Protests against compulsory vaccination: police expect “no problems”
The movement has long since lost most of its appeal – not just since most of the measures to contain the corona pandemic were lifted. The rally in front of the Reichstag was reported to the police with 500 participants and the demonstration with only 85 participants. “We assume that it will remain trouble-free,” says a police spokesman.
Around 100 protesters were arrested at the first consultation in the Bundestag on compulsory vaccination in January. However, with 1500 to 2000, significantly fewer than the announced 16,000 went.
The members of the Bundestag want to debate the various draft laws on compulsory vaccination from nine o’clock and then make a decision. It has long been clear that a general obligation for adults over the age of 18 will not get a majority in the circles of the government factions of the SPD, Greens and FDP.
Parliamentarians agree on compulsory vaccination from the age of 60
Most recently, the parliamentarians agreed on an age limit of 60 years valid from October 15 and also called on the CDU to support the proposal. The Bundestag Health Committee voted in favor of the compromise on Wednesday.
