Rallies Against Right-Wing Extremism: Protests Across Germany – Potsdam Meeting Upsets Thousands

2024-02-10 17:01:45

As of: February 10, 2024 6:01 p.m

The meeting of radical right-wingers in Potsdam in November continues to upset thousands of people in Germany. Today there were once more rallies once morest right-wing extremism across the country – for example in Rostock, Itzehoe and Gotha.

Thousands of people across the country once once more took to the streets once morest right-wing extremism and for an open society. This time the largest rallies took place in the north – in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein.

According to police reports, up to 4,000 people demonstrated in Itzehoe. According to the police, 3,200 people came together in Rostock under the motto “Never once more is now”; the organizers spoke of more than 5,000.

Sinsheim and Gotha are “colorful”

According to police reports, there were around 2,000 in Werne in North Rhine-Westphalia and around 1,200 in Fröndenberg in the Unna district. “Sinsheim is colorful!” was the motto under which, according to a police spokesman, around 1,500 people gathered in the Baden-Württemberg city.

In Gotha, Thuringia, it was said “Never once more is now” – a representative of the “Gotha is colorful” alliance spoke of at least 1,100 participants, while the police estimated the number at around 1,000.

Protests for a month

There were also various rallies with several hundred participants, for example in Timmendorfer Strand or in Herford. In Ennepetal in the southern Ruhr area, around 900 people gathered under the motto “Ennepetal once morest the AfD”. “Democracy is an achievement. It cannot be taken for granted and it is not inviolable. We must defend it,” the organizers wrote online.

The wave of protests once morest right-wing extremism and for democracy has been going on for around a month. In Berlin, for example, according to police reports, more than 150,000 people gathered in front of the Reichstag building the previous week.

Sustained horror at meetings in Potsdam

The trigger was revelations by “Correctiv” regarding a meeting of radical right-wingers in Potsdam in November, in which AfD politicians and individual members of the CDU and the conservative Values ​​Union also took part. There, the former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke regarding the concept of so-called remigration.

When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.

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