Police officers tried to stop a demonstration by opponents of the Corona policy in front of Munich Central Station.
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Violent demonstrators attacked officials and a journalist, the police used pepper spray and batons “dozen times”. Eleven suspects were provisionally arrested and 14 crimes were reported.
R.and 5000 people protested against the Corona requirements unannounced and sometimes violently, according to the police in Munich. As the police announced on Wednesday evening, they had to use truncheons and pepper spray dozens of times to stop a “larger march towards the city center”. There were “repeated attacks on police officers and acts of resistance”. Protesters also attacked a media representative.
According to the authorities, a total of eleven suspects were provisionally arrested and 14 crimes were reported. These included violations due to the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations, threats with a knife, a case of dangerous personal injury against a police officer and forgery of documents.
According to their own statements, the police had already expected demonstrations because messenger groups had called for so-called walks. That is why she had secured “neuralgic points” in the city center with around 500 officials. After the clashes with the police, the demonstrators, some of whom had children with them, scattered around the city. A counter-demonstration with around 160 participants in the afternoon went quietly, according to the authorities.
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