Thousands of others are expected to attend a protest Sunday in the western German town of Dusseldorf, as opposed to government restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organizers say they expect up to 50,000 more people to be present, while police say they have about 10,000 more people, according to the DPA news agency.
There are several planned counter-configurations in the city.
Participants must wear a mask, but will be asked to stay at least 1. 5 meters (5 feet) away from others, as stipulated in pandemic regulations in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, of which Dusseldorf is the capital.
The demonstration initiative is a regional branch of the Querdenken (Side Thinking) movement, which has organized demonstrations throughout the country, adding in the capital, Berlin.
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Berlin has witnessed some of the largest concentrations of reporting measures opposed to the pandemic
Previous occasions have attracted a diverse organization of participants who, while united in their rejection of the government’s strategy to manage the pandemic, constitute a wide diversity of world visions.
They come with others who oppose vaccines that see the pandemic as a hoax aimed at generating profits for giant pharmaceutical corporations and cite Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates as the instigator. Others see the pandemic as real, but as caused through 5G. cellular networks have been deployed around the world lately. However, others believe that measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are an example of overcoming government that leads to authoritarianism.
However, the biggest fear for the authorities is the contingent of far-right protesters who use protests as a platform to propagate their anti-Semitic ideology, some of whom have been noticed in past demonstrations with the old imperial flag, used as a symbol on the far right.
During a demonstration in Berlin on August 29, an organization of protesters rushed up the steps of the Reichstag building, sparking outrage.
On the other hand, a demonstration last weekend in Munich, which took place at the site of the world-famous Oktoberfest, cancelled this year due to the largely peaceful pandemic, however, some 120 participants among a crowd of 10,000 other people face legal action, most of them for not dressing in masks.
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