Over the weekend, more than 820,000 people demonstrated against right-wing extremism. This is shown in a taz evaluation of 300 demo reports.
A few hundred of Sunday's hundreds of thousands of protesters in Hamburg Photo: Jonas Walzberg/dpa
SEDAN taz | From Aachen to Ahlen, via Zwickau and Zwiesel, people took to the streets in more than 300 places across Germany over the weekend. They demonstrated against the rise of right-wing extremism and for a diverse life in Germany. In total, at least 820,000 protesters were on the move, as shown by an analysis of local media news, police reports and inquiries at police stations.
The protests were sparked by revelations from the research center. Corrective about a meeting of neo-Nazis at the end of November, in which some politicians from the far-right AfD party, as well as individual members of the CDU and the far-right Union of Values, participated in Potsdam. These were also plans to denaturalize and expel non-white people and people with foreign roots.
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The previous weekend, more than 900,000 people demonstrated. Since January 19, there have been almost 450 demonstrations with a total of more than 2 million people.
The Campact campaign network also has more than 800,000 protesters this weekend. “The special thing: This weekend there were demonstrations mainly in cities and small towns, especially in East Germany,” said Campact board member Christoph Bautz, commenting on the figures. “This means that people oppose the AfD where the party is strongest.”
In fact, the number of participants in only eight cities reached five or six figures. The large mass of protesters made up around 160 communities, where between 1,000 and 10,000 people took to the streets. In almost 100 places, fewer than 1,000 people took to the streets. The smallest demonstration we know of took place in Seehausen, Saxony-Anhalt, where the local police informed us by phone that there were 60 protesters.
The largest demonstrations occurred in Düsseldorf with 100,000 people and in Hamburg with between 60,000 and 100,000 protesters. In Osnabrück 25,000 people took to the streets, in Mannheim and Aachen 20,000 each, in Marburg 16,000 and in Kiel and Trier more than 10,000.
Dozens more demonstrations are planned
The weekend began on Friday with more than 88,000 people participating in 51 demonstrations, all of them in the three or four figures. With some 190 events and more than half a million participants, Saturday was the main day of action: demonstrations were held in many places following the commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust. On Sunday, at least 200,000 people participated in about 60 demonstrations.
More than 60 demonstrations are planned for the next few days, ten of them on Monday alone.
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We have been collecting the dates of the current demonstrations against right-wing extremism for several days, also via the email address demo Notices@taz.de. So far we have received more than 200 suggestions. (Thank you very much to everyone who wrote to us!) This list forms the basis of our analysis; The processed data can be downloaded from our charts and used freely. We appreciate reports of bugs and outdated information and will be happy to correct them.