After the revelation of the Right Front meeting on November 25th in Potsdam, thousands of people took to the streets again on Wednesday evening to demand a ban on the AfD. Several initiatives such as Standing Up Against Racism or the DGB Berlin-Brandenburg had under the provisional title “Round Table Antifascism” called to take part in the demonstration at the Red Town Hall in Berlin.
According to a police spokeswoman, the highest number of participants of the evening was reached around 6:30 p.m. with around 2,000 people. According to information from several media houses At its peak, 3,500 people took part. Only 200 participants were registered. Almost 200 emergency services were supposed to monitor the demonstration. “Everything was calm and peaceful,” said the police spokeswoman at the time.
Right at the beginning of the rally, René P., one of the speakers, pointed out strict rejection of anti-Semitism and anti-Islamic racism at the event there. A clue that may also have been due to the presence of several Palestine flags.
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In the past few days several have had Pro-Palestinian networks on social media called for a “Demo Takeover”. And thereby Also explicitly required to bring your own flags. When a group of people chanted “Freedom for Palestine,” a brief argument broke out at the rally.
Ferat Koçak, a member of the Left in the Berlin House of Representatives, also spoke at the demonstration. He confirmed that the authorities had connections to the AfD and right-wing extremist networks. As Victims in the Neukölln arson attack series According to the politician, he could have died because the authorities had failed. An arson attack was carried out on Koçak on the night of February 1, 2018: his car was allegedly set on fire by right-wing extremists while it was parked in a carport right next to his parents’ house. As it later turned out, the fire barely spread to the adjacent gas pipe and the house.
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In addition, spokesman René P. described the AfD as a “danger to us all”. Posters against the right showed slogans such as “Björn Höcke is a Nazi” or “Stop the AfD”, while another read “My name is human”. Another left-wing member of the House of Representatives made it clear that it was wrong to claim that a 30 percent party cannot be banned. “The NSDAP was also a 30 percent party.”
Thousands of people have been demonstrating against the right-wing in many cities for days. The reason was reports from the media company “Correctiv” last week about a previously unknown meeting between right-wing radicals and politicians from the AfD and CDU in a Potsdam villa on November 25th. Chancellor Olaf Scholz thanked the demonstrators “against racism, hate speech and for our liberal democracy“take to the streets. (with dpa)
2024-01-18 10:34:10
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