The organizer of an anti-rights demonstration with at least 80,000 people in Munich canceled the event due to overcrowding. A police spokesman told the German Press Agency on Sunday. The safety of participants can no longer be guaranteed.
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The police assumed there were at least 80,000 protesters, the organizer said there were 250,000. There was already a demonstration against the right and the AfD on Friday Hamburg was canceled due to the large number of people.
According to police, hundreds of thousands of people in Germany defended cohesion and tolerance in society over the weekend.
The protest was triggered by revelations from the Correctiv research center about a meeting of right-wing extremists in Potsdam on November 25, 2023, which was attended by politicians from the AfD as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Union of Values. . The former head of the right-wing extremist identity movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, according to his own statements, spoke of “remigration”. Right-wing extremists often want to say that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.
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“Remigrate on your knees”
Many protesters in Munich used signs against right-wing extremist ideas: “Remigrate to your knees”, “Let's learn from history instead of repeating it”, “No tolerance for intolerance”, “AfD – A nightmare for Germany” and “Brown “Bottles must not be placed in the glass waste container of the Bundestag,” it said there, among other things.