At least 150,000 protest in Berlin against the far right
Al Jazeera
Mass demonstrations are taking place in Germany in the fourth week of protests against the far right.
Approximately 150,000 people took to the streets of the capital Berlin on Saturday, police said.
Similar protests were also taking place in cities including Dresden and Hanover, in a sign of growing opposition to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
On Saturday, Berlin police said people were still flocking to the Reichstag parliament building, where protesters gathered under the slogan “We are the Firewall” to protest against right-wing extremism and to show support for democracy.
“Whether in Eisenach, Homburg or Berlin: in small and large cities across the country, many citizens are coming together to demonstrate against forgetting, against hatred and hate speech,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on the social media platform X.
