Parallel to numerous other protests
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This is how the demo for solidarity with Ukraine went in Düsseldorf
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16 images More than a thousand people protest against the Ukraine war in Düsseldorf Photo: dpa/Malte Krudewig
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Düsseldorf Several demonstrations took place in Düsseldorf this Saturday. The largest of these was directed against the Ukraine war. But there were also rallies against the Corona measures and counter-protests. An overview of what is happening in the state capital.
Thousands of people again took to the streets in Düsseldorf on Saturday to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Under the motto “Together against Russian aggression”, the participants called for an end to the war and expressed their solidarity with the people of Ukraine. According to the police, around 5,000 demonstrators were on the street. “These days, the heart of Düsseldorf is beating blue and yellow,” said Düsseldorf Mayor Stephan Keller (CDU) at the rally.
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The deputy head of government in North Rhine-Westphalia, Joachim Stamp (FDP), emphasized: “We are also thinking of the courageous Russians who are taking to the streets despite severe repression.” And: “We want to shape Europe together with a peace-loving Russia at some point”. According to the FDP member of the Bundestag Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the Russian war of aggression came “with an announcement”.
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NRW Greens leader Mona Neubaur called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war and at the same time warned that Russian citizens should not be condemned for the crimes of the “war criminal”.
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For the organizers, speaker Olena Dubas-Chornuk called for a no-fly zone over Ukraine. However, NATO had already rejected a corresponding request from Ukraine. The attack on the nuclear power plant near the city of Zaporizhia was “a kind of nuclear terrorism,” Dubas-Chornuk said.
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On the posters of the demo participants were inscriptions such as “Stop Putin” or “Refugees welcome!” (Refugees welcome). Families with children also came. A child held up a self-made poster with the words: “I wish for us all peace”.
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23 pictures of Jacques Tilly’s Putin car on the war in Ukraine
Photo: Brigitte Pavetic
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Last weekend, 4,000 people in Düsseldorf expressed their solidarity with Ukraine. On Thursday, too, thousands of mostly young people demonstrated in several NRW cities after a global call by the Fridays for Future climate movement. And on Shrove Monday, around 250,000 people came to Cologne for a peace demonstration.
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The organizers of the demo in Düsseldorf included two organizations that are also committed to the democracy movement in Belarus. In addition to yellow and blue signs for Ukraine, flags in white, red and white were also seen as a symbol of the democracy movement in Belarus. The ruler there, Alexander Lukashenko, has them crushed by force.
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Our live blog on the war against Ukraine can be found here.
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The sculpture by Düsseldorf’s carriage builder Jacques Tilly on the Ukraine war was also on display.
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More rallies by AfD and opponents of the Corona measures
In addition to the demonstration against the Ukraine war, other protests also took place on Saturday, and the police spoke of a total of eight registered events.
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Supporters of the AfD gathered on the state parliament meadow. The district association Düsseldorf had planned a day of action with the topic “Healthy without constraint”. About 500 people were expected here, but according to our impressions from on site, this number was not quite reached.
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In response to the AfD event, the left-wing alliance “Düsseldorf stands across” registered a counter-protest on the Bürgerwiese in front of the state parliament. 69 demonstrators were counted here.
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The opponents of the Corona measures dodged because of the AfD rally in Düsseldorf’s Rheinpark on Cecilienallee in Golzheim. The migration path should then run through Derendorf, Pempelfort and Düsseltal for the first time. There were several hundred participants on site. The fact that the police used the parking spaces in the immediate vicinity for their own vehicles caused slight criticism. Therefore, many potential participants are still looking for a parking space. Cries like “We are the people” were heard, and there were also opposition to a possible obligation to vaccinate against the corona virus.
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A rally on International Women’s Day with around 250 participants also took place on Johannes-Rau-Platz. In anticipation of the anniversary on March 8th, they wanted to draw attention to the oppression of women. This applies above all to Kurdish women, as they are not only discriminated against because of their gender, but also because of their ethnic origin. The demonstration was registered by the “Bündnis Feministische Kampftag Düsseldorf”. According to their own statements, this was founded by trade unionists, Kurds and actors in Düsseldorf’s cultural life.
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Here is the photo gallery: More than a thousand people protest against the Ukraine war in Düsseldorf
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