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Some 2,000 people gathered on Berlin’s central Alexanderplatz square on Sunday to protest the measures imposed across Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
“There was largely neither the minimum [social] distance nor the obligation to cover mouth and nose,” police tweeted. However, these were the conditions laid out for the protest to take place, the police said. One of the reasons for the protests was the World Health Summit, which was originally planned for the Kosmos event centre on the adjoining Karl Marx Allee.
Due to the increasing number of infections in Germany, the event, in which representatives of Germany’s national disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), are also participating, is now taking place online.
The protesters nevertheless moved in front of the building, which was cordoned off, and police officers could also be seen on its rooftop.
On Alexanderplatz and in Karl Marx Allee the demonstrators shouted, “We are here, we are loud because we are being robbed of our freedom” and “We are the people.” Some of them carried pink heart-shaped balloons and protest banners.
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