Again protests against Corona policy in Germany
Out Protest against the Corona measures and the planned compulsory vaccination thousands of people took to the streets in Germany again on Saturday. In many places they confronted them counter-protesters opposite. It remained largely peaceful.
In Erfurt The police used pepper spray to prevent a protest march against the Corona policy from marching towards the state parliament, as the situation center announced. In Stuttgart protested demonstrators in front of the Südwestrundfunk building (SWR) against media reporting on the corona pandemic. In Düsseldorf According to police estimates, more than 7,500 opponents of the Corona policy moved through the city center on Saturday Freiburg According to the police, there were around 5,500 who met around 2,000 counter-demonstrators. Critics of the Corona measures also took to the streets elsewhere, for example in Hamburg, Schwerin, Offenbach, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Dresden, Regensburg and Ansbach.
In front of the SWR building in Stuttgart, demonstrators kept shouting “Lying press” or “We are the people,” as an eyewitness reported. the Police asked participants to wear a mask. The German Association of Journalists (DJV) accused the demonstrators of Not having understood the principle of freedom of the press. Anyone who shouts “lying press” and claims that the SWR and other media are reporting what they are told “from above” is wrong, said the Baden-Württemberg DJV state association on Saturday. “At the same time, it is absurd to demand that the media should report as they wish. That reveals little understanding of how independent media work and function,” says DJV state chairman Markus Pfalzgraf.
According to Green politician Omid Nouripour, part of the corona protest scene can be “win back” with talks and persuasion. Nouripour, who is applying for the Green Party presidency together with Ricarda Lang, told the German Press Agency: “There is a hard, sometimes militant core that I have no understanding for, but I have empathy for many who are unsettled run along.” He had visited people who were against the Covid 19 vaccinations and also had such people in his circle of acquaintances. In personal conversations, he noticed “that their individual experiences have shaken their trust in the institutions”.
Different is the “hard core of the Corona deniers” to judge. Some of these are people from the right-wing milieu, who fundamentally question the free-democratic basic order: “I’m afraid they’ve lost hops and malt.” Lower Saxony’s Justice Minister Barbara Havliza (CDU) told the dpa in Hanover: “Many of the participants are Ultimately, they go against everything the state tells them to do, and they turn against it.” She observes “a worrying form of disenchantment with democracy and the state” at the demonstrations. (dpa)
