In Munich, 250,000 people take the street to the right

Against the right and for democracy, several hundred thousand people nationwide took to the streets. According to police, more than 250,000 demonstrators came together in bright sunshine on Theresienwiese. The organizers spoke of more than 320,000 participants. According to the police, the protest was initially peaceful until afternoon.

The demonstration was supported for diversity, human dignity, cohesion and democracy from very different parts of society, from the Munich Film Festival to the institutions of churches and free welfare to the Munich football club FC Bayern and TSV 1860.

It was also demonstrated in Lower Saxony and Bremen. On one of the initiative “Grandmas against right” Organized rally in the city center of Hanover, around 24,000 people took part.

In addition, there were further protests by left -wing groups in the Lower Saxony state capital, said a police spokesman. In some cases, attempts were made to prevent people from visiting an AfD election campaign stand. The police pushed away the approximately 250 -person group away from the stand.

In the city center of Bremen there was a rally under the title for the afternoon “Bremen holds together” scheduled. Before the start, at least 25,000 people had gathered on the cathedral courtyard in the city center.

There was also protest in Rhineland-Palatinate and in Hesse. As the police said, 13,000 people started in Gießen after a rally against the right. 8,000 people gathered in Darmstadt. The expected number of around 1000 participants was significantly exceeded.

Already in the morning a demonstration found in Mainz under the motto “A world that holds together – Mainz chooses cohesion” instead of. The police counted around 4,000 participants. In Kassel around 800 to 1000 people came up “Grandmas against right” after. Other smaller rallies of the “Grandmas against right” With a few hundred participants there were in Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern.

In Rostock, around 3000 people took to the streets for democracy and against right -wing extremism. Under the motto “Everyone against fascism – Rostock stands together!” People moved through the city center. The union of the persecuted of the Nazi regime – Association of anti -fascists (VVN – BDA) called for the demonstration. According to the police, the demonstration was peaceful.

Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people all over Germany took to the streets (the star reported). Many protested against the joint Bundestag vote of the Union and AfD to tighten migration policy.