According to police, more than 900,000 people took part in the demonstrations against right-wing extremism and for the protection of democracy last weekend.
“According to what the police counted nationwide, around 910,600 people took part in the demonstrations against right-wing extremism over the weekend,” said Federal Interior Ministry spokesman Maximilian Kall in Berlin.
Accordingly, a total of around 360,000 people were out and about on Saturday. According to information, around 550,000 demonstrators took to the streets on Sunday. The demonstrations are also a signal to all people with a migrant background living in Germany “that they clearly belong.”
The protests were triggered by revelations from the Correctiv research center about a meeting of right-wing extremists on November 25th, in which some AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union took part in Potsdam. The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.
In Munich, the protest had to be canceled on Sunday because there were too many people. Thousands also protested in many smaller cities.
