The “silent majority” will take to the streets on Sunday in at least 90 cities. The trigger is the far-right's revealed plan for mass deportations of foreigners.
Northern Germany in the million-strong city of Hamburg, a demonstration against the extreme right had to be stopped on Friday evening, because there were many more participants than expected.
Among other things, Sakslaislehti reported on the suspension Der Spiegel.
According to the police, there were about 50,000 participants, and according to the organizers, about 80,000. The center of Hamburg was full to the brim, which caused a security risk.
Local Hamburger Abendblatt -magazine, the authorities already started to fear that in the resulting overcrowding “people may start falling into Alster”.
The Alster is a river that forms a lake in the center of Hamburg.
Demonstrators were urged to leave peacefully in the evening Finnish time.
There was a large demonstration in Hamburg on Friday, partly against the far-right AfD party.
Hamburg the demonstration hinted at Sunday, which is the main day of anti-extremist demonstrations in Germany.
Perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets when demonstrations against the extreme right are organized in at least 90 localities.
The marches of the “silent majority” have been predicted by, among others, Der Spiegel and the news agency AFP.
Similar demonstrations have already been organized earlier this week, but Sunday will clearly be the liveliest protest day.
As an elastic band are an investigative journalism publication Corrective recent revelations about the secret plans of extreme right-wing influencers, which, if put into practice, would mean mass deportations of foreigners and revocation of German citizenship based on ethnic background.
Politicians and background influencers from the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, which is partly far-right, were involved in drawing up the plan. The AfD has increased its popularity strongly, especially in the states of eastern Germany.
The AfD is indeed the main target of the “silent majority” protests. In Germany, there has been a fierce debate about whether the party should be banned by law.
In many in the German city, the slogan of the demonstrations is “Together against the extreme right”.
Sunday's protests include participants from many walks of life. In addition to politicians, e.g. bishops and influencers from the Bundesliga, the main football league, have shown their support.
“Those who do nothing now have learned nothing from school or history,” said the SC Freiburg coach Christian Streich.
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