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- The organizers of the anti-right demonstration in Munich canceled the event due to overcrowding.
- The safety of the participants can no longer be guaranteed.
- The police assumed there were at least 80,000 demonstrators, the organizer said there were 250,000.
In Hamburg, too, a demonstration against the right-wing and the AfD was canceled on Friday due to the large number of people. According to police, hundreds of thousands of people across the country took a stand for cohesion and tolerance in society over the weekend.
The protest was triggered by the revelations by the Correctiv research center about a meeting of right-wing extremists in Potsdam on November 25, 2023, in which AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union took part. The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration”. Right-wing extremists usually mean that a large number of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.
Many demonstrators in Munich used posters against right-wing extremist ideas: “Remigrate to your knees,” “Let us learn from history instead of repeating it,” “No tolerance for intolerance,” “AfD – A nightmare for Germany,” and “ Brown bottles do not belong in the waste glass container in the Bundestag,” it read there, among other things.
Tagesschau, January 20, 2024, 7:30 p.m.; dpa/vigp;blac
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