Several Arrested at Berlin Rally against Coronavirus Restrictions (+Video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Berlin police arrested several protesters as hundreds of activists took part in an unregistered demonstration against coronavirus restrictions on Saturday.
Some 300 protesters descended on the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz square in Germany’s capital on Saturday for an unauthorized rally against the coronavirus lockdown.
The participants did not bother to observe social distancing guidelines and only a handful of them donned protective face masks, RT reported.
The gathering brought people together with very different political views, as banners at the rally ranged from quite moderate pro-democracy calls to rather hard-line ones. One protester, for instance, was spotted carrying a banner reading ‘Vaccination is terrorism’.
The rally promptly escalated into scuffles between the activists and police trying to remove protesters from the area. Several people were detained and forcefully put into police vans.
Earlier this week, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that citizens can hold political protests if they follow social distancing rules.
