Hamburg, Hannover, Frankfurt, Kassel, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg and beyond. Numerous German cities on Saturday 20 th January they saw their squares filled with anti-protesters l’Afd, the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland. It is estimated that they participated hundreds of thousands of people, united by slogans and mottos in favor of democracy and against the national-conservative, eurosceptic and anti-immigration party. And after yesterday’s demonstrations, this too is expected Sunday thousands of people will take to the streets again across the country. Even in the capital.
A Munichreports daily News, police expect up to 25,000 people. TO Colonia the ‘Cologne stand across’ alliance, made up of over 50 associations, organizations and initiatives, expects the presence of around 10,000 participants. A protest is also planned in front of the Bundestag this afternoon Berlin, organized by a broad alliance of different associations. According to the police, around 1,000 participants are expected. Demonstrations are also planned in many other German cities, including Chemnitz, Dresden and Neubrandenburg.
According to the organizers and the police, the people who took to the streets on Saturday are more than 250,000. In many locations, many more participants arrived than registered, so it was necessary to expand the demonstration areas and move the routes. Only a Frankfurt am Main More than 35,000 people participated, similar numbers also registered for Hannover e Dortmund. According to the police a Karlsruhe About 20,000 people arrived instead of the 1,000 protesters expected. The demonstration paraded in front of iconic places such as the Fundamental Rights Square and the Federal Constitutional Court.
The demonstrations are a reaction to the investigation by “Correctiv“. Il January 10th last year the investigative agency actually reported a secret meeting in Potsdam, near Berlinin which a plan was discussed for the mass expulsion of migrants, asylum seekers and “non-assimilated” German citizens. Among the participants were members of the AfD. The party confirmed the presence of its members at the event, but declared that it does not support the “re-emigration” project of Martin Sellnera leading figure of the New Right and the Identitarian Movement.
But despite the attempts to scaling of the news from the party, the wave of indignation was enormous and immediate in the country. A country that just in recent days saw the reform of the citizenship law which will allow you to obtain German nationality anymore quicklyalso extending the right to have the double passport (so far reserved for EU and Swiss citizens only). And precisely from previous demonstrations against the far right Olaf Scholz had tried to restore impetus to the government, whose popularity is at an all-time low: “From Cologne to Dresden, from Tübingen to Kiel, hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in Germany these days to show their support for our democracy and against right-wing extremism”.