FFF counts 100,000 in Hamburg. The influx to demonstrations against the right does not stop
Jan 28, 2024, 8:58 p.m. Listen to article
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Once again this weekend, people across Germany are taking to the streets against right-wing extremism. According to the organizers, there are 100,000 participants in Hamburg alone. But there is also protest in many smaller cities.
The wave of demonstrations against right-wing extremism is not slowing down: hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets again at hundreds of events over the weekend. In Hamburg, according to the climate protection organization Fridays for Future, around 100,000 people took part in a meeting in the city center. She organized the demonstration, in which dozens of other associations and initiatives took part. There were just as many participants in Düsseldorf on Saturday. Information on the number of participants was not initially available from the Hamburg police.
The Campact association said that “at least 821,000 people in 319 locations” took part in the nationwide demonstrations against the right this weekend. According to the police, around 7,000 people took to the streets in Bremerhaven. The police estimated the number of demonstrators in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, at 10,000 people. Rallies were also organized in Zwickau and Hoyerswerda in Saxony and in Kassel in Hesse, among others.
According to police, 100,000 people demonstrated in the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf on Saturday. There were also larger protests on the same day in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, and Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, where, according to police, 20,000 people each came together. In Bocholt in North Rhine-Westphalia, officials assumed there were more than 9,000 participants, in Lübeck there were 8,000 people and in Hildesheim in Lower Saxony there were around 7,500.
Demos also in rural areas
On Saturday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, thousands of people also took part in the demonstrations, mostly organized by non-partisan alliances, in numerous smaller cities and more rural areas. According to the police, around 2,000 people gathered in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, and around 4,000 people in Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, on Saturday. In Höxter in North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, there were 300 participants and in Boitzenburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there were 350 participants.
The reason for the protests are revelations by the research network Correctiv about a secret meeting of AfD politicians, right-wing extremists and entrepreneurs. According to the research, the participants discussed the expulsion of millions of people with an immigrant background. The demos are also generally directed against right-wing populism and extremism.
According to police, around 910,000 people demonstrated nationwide last weekend. According to the “Democrat Team” website, which provides information about demonstration dates, there have been more than 600 protests since January 12th with a total of more than 1.7 million participants.
2024-01-28 19:58:00
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