Tens of thousands gathered in Hamburg on Friday for a demonstration against the far right, and organizers said the protest was ended early because the mass of people led to safety concerns.

Tens of thousands gathered in Hamburg on Friday for a demonstration against the far right, and organizers said the protest was ended early because the mass of people led to safety concerns.

  • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Final number was 160.000 people!! Even if its a high guess, thats at least double to triple of what they were planning for. Apparently some people needed medical attention and EMTs were having a hard time getting through the crowd

    • Weazel@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      If I’m not mistaken Tagesschau reported that the organizers planned 10.000 people to attend. Let’s say the 160k is a high estimate I think it’s safe to say there were around 100k people so ten times more than originally planned. It’s a huge win after the past few months and years where most protests in Germany were right wing protests.

      • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        You’re right, i just checked. 10k planned, police says 50k, DGB Hamburg says 80k and Kazim Abaci from Verein Unternehmer ohne Grenzen says 130k.

        Makes me hopeful

        • mom@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 months ago

          Of course the police says only 50k…

          Die Polizei hat kein Naziproblem, denn die Polizei hat mit nazis kein problem

          • Lhianna@feddit.de
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            11 months ago

            Actually, it’s because police estimates are the number of people being there at the same time while organizers count people being there at all, so both numbers can be correct. Also, police said making an estimate was difficult because of the masses of people.

            Not a fan of the police in general but no need to invent reasons either.

  • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Second comment since its another topic:

    AfD has sought to distance itself from the extremist meeting, saying it had no organizational or financial links to the event, that it wasn’t responsible for what was discussed there and members who attended did so in a purely personal capacity.

    Interesting, a few days ago Weidel said all of the allegations were made up. Funny how it changes depending on how much info the public got

  • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The demonstration in our city today was surprisingly big. People estimated that maybe 1-3k people would show up tops, but we ended up being around 15k according to sources which is awesome considering our smallish population of around 80k people.

    I remember when the AFD was being laughed off as a joke back when they first joined as a political party. Surely, they would never be voted into the Bundestag, never reaching the required 5% of votes, I thought. Here we are a couple of years later with them being the second-highest voted for party in the entire country. smh my head

    I hope they’ll actually be deemed to be unconstitutional and kicked from parliament because of their clearly fascist views after all of these protests and all of the shit dug up on them.