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Original Title: Berlin police break up banned pro-Palestinian rally: Berlin police broke up a protest of roughly 1,000 people that had been banned by authorities in the German capital at short notice. Several other demonstrations, some permitted, others not, took place around Germany
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
German police and courts responded in different manners to a series of protests and demonstrations showing solidarity with Palestinians over the weekend, with some forbidden and others allowed to go ahead.
Police had initially argued that it would be taking place too close to a pro-Israel demonstration on the city’s central Heumarkt square, thus presenting an increased security risk, an argument the court didn’t accept.
Deputy Chancellor Robert Habeck tried to describe these issues at some length in a speech released online late on Friday that gathered traction over the weekend.
Habeck’s personal video message, addressed at first to Israelis, promised them “we stand at your side, and we have forgotten nothing,” an apparent reference to Germany’s role in the Holocaust and its post-war guarantee of Israel’s security.
Habeck went on to explain how on his first trip to Israel after joining the government, he had seen a striking painting, asked what it was, and was told it depicted Nazi soldiers making people dig their own mass grave at Babi Yar in what’s now Ukraine.
“It is horrible that many families are so worried,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, assuring the country’s Jewish community of additional protection.
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