Against the right: thousands demonstrate across Germany

For weeks, tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets against the right all over Germany. Citizens gathered again this weekend.

Thousands of people across the country have once again positioned themselves against the right. According to the police, around 3,500 people took part in the demonstration “Bochum in solidarity – hand in hand against the right”. In Bordesholm, Schleswig-Holstein, around 2,500 people took to the streets against right-wing extremism.

In Magdeburg, people demonstrated with banners, rainbow flags, soap bubbles and music. Crafted and self-designed signs read, among other things, “Respect instead of exclusion”, “Nazis are shit” and “Diversity without alternative”. According to police reports, up to 3,000 people gathered. The organizers spoke of around 6,000 participants.

There were other events with several hundred participants each in Bernau and Gaggenau in Baden-Württemberg. According to police, more than 1,000 people demonstrated in Berlin against an event with former AfD politician André Poggenburg.

For weeks, tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets against the right all over Germany. The protests were triggered by a report by the media company Correctiv about a meeting of radical right-wingers on November 25th in Potsdam, which was also attended by AfD politicians and individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values ​​Union.