In Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich and other German cities, thousands of protesters took to the streets again this Saturday to protest against the corona measures in the country.
The death toll in Germany is relatively lower than in many European neighboring countries and many measures have already eased in recent times.
Still, some Germans took to the streets for the second time in a row this weekend to express their anger at the corona measures.
Violence took place in some protests last week. This time, they went peacefully, according to the German police, according to Says Online.
Police arrest demonstrators in Berlin
Up to five thousand people were allowed in Stuttgart. When more showed up, the police had to free up space in the surrounding cities. Demonstrators had to keep a distance of 2.5 meters.
Munich had issued a permit for up to a thousand demonstrators, who had to keep a distance of 1.5 meters.
In the capital Berlin, hundreds of people took to the streets and counter-demonstrations took place. Police said they carried out two hundred identity checks or preliminary arrests. Two officers were slightly injured.
Police are monitoring demonstrations
The protesters also expressed dissatisfaction with the German media, which they claim portrays them too much as a radical radical and supporters of conspiracy theories.
Last week, violence against journalists took place in various places. The German Federal Investigation Service BKA announced on Saturday to the Frankfurter Allgemeine that right-wing radical groups try to use demonstrations for their own propaganda purposes.
Despite the protests, the majority of the more than 80 million Germans seem to support the corona measures of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Polls show 40 percent support their government, 56 percent support the measures.
Also arrests in Warsaw and London
Residents also took to the streets elsewhere in Europe. In London, the police arrested at least nineteen protesters who did not keep enough distance during a protest. Tear gas was also used against demonstrators in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
For the first time since the corona outbreak, smaller protests of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement took place in the French cities of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier and Strasbourg.
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